WEBVTT - 027 Rich on Tech Radio Show - July 8, 2023 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:07.400 Threads takes the tech world by storm. The social media 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:13.440 scam that wants to give you a free piano, Volkswagen 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:20.560 tests self driving cars, plus your tech questions answered. What's 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.920 going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.680 This show where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.280 think you should know about. It's also the place where 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.479 I answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:40.239 should be easy, helpful and inspiring. Phone lines are now 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.960 open at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.000 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.720 Give me a call. If you have a question about technology, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:57.240 email is also open. Send it to hello at richontech 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:03.040 dot TV. Well, there is only one story in the 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.039 tech world, one story in the entire tech world, and 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.479 that is Threads. This is a new app created by 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:16.520 Instagram that lets folks share text updates and join in 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:22.840 on public conversations. It's basically Twitter, but from Instagram. It's 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.000 all access through your Instagram account. Seventy million is that 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.640 the last count. Seventy million people have signed up in 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.720 less than two days. Any startup in the world would 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.560 love to have that kind of number. How did it 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.680 get there so fast? We'll talk about that more later 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.440 in the show, but the bottom line is that because 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.400 it's so tightly integrated with Instagram, it was super easy 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.720 to sign up and find your followers and find people 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.680 to follow, and that made it very sticky right away. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.720 And people are really having a blast with this thing. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.360 So I'll tell you more about threads and just moment, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.480 but I thought it'd be fun to kind of take 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:08.359 a walk down social media history lane, because as tech folks, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.080 we get really excited about the latest and greatest things, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.960 and honestly, it's always been this way. It's been this 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.760 way for a very long time, probably thirty years now. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.080 The very first social network that I remember was Friendster. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.560 Friendster was back in about two thousand and two, and 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.240 it got some pretty big success. I think everyone was 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.400 on friendstr and Friendster just pretty much lets you connect 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.160 with friends. I don't remember much more about it than that. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.440 That's all I remember is that you kind of just 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.480 connected with your friends on there. And I don't remember 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.840 what we did on there, but we had our friends 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.200 on there, and then all of a sudden, my Space 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.880 came along, like a year later, and then everyone went 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.919 to MySpace and we all said Ooh, this is really cool. 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.560 My Space is really fun because it lets you customize 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.000 your homepage, your profile page. It was kind of like 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:09.040 a social network version of GeoCities, the website that everyone 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.440 had their home on the web MySpace. We were all 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.600 friends with Tom. Remember Tom. I guarantee you in your 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.840 head you could think about what Tom looks like to 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.560 this day, that white T shirt or maybe it was 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.480 a black T shirt. I don't remember, but anyway, you 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.200 could remember Tom, who could forget And the best part 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.080 about MySpace is that it showed you how you knew someone. 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.040 That was the best part is that you saw how 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.040 you were connected and that was so really fun, and 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.040 you were connected to everyone by the way. I don't 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.720 think there's a person on MySpace that you were not 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.520 connected to. And my Space was heavy on the music influence, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.280 so there's a lot of music kind of built into 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.000 MySpace and that was really I think what helped it 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.520 take off too, is that you can listen to music 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.880 on there and just share the kind of music you wanted, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.640 and really it just gave you a way to express yourself. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.640 For Square, remember that one four square came along and 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.360 this I remember specifically checking into places in New York 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.520 City when this came out, I believe I was working 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.960 at c neet around the time, and for Square allowed 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.600 you to check in at your favorite restaurant, your favorite bar, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.000 your favorite coffee shop, wherever you were and share that 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.800 out and so people could see where you were, and 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.840 if you checked in enough, you would become mayor of 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.000 that place. And that was an honor to become the 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.400 mayor of wherever you were. So for Square was pretty 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.120 hot for a while and it was fun, it was great. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.200 It showed people where you were. That was the next 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.719 kind of the geolocation part of this became a big 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.800 part of social media networks. How about this one? Do 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.000 you remember? Path? Path was a This was when everyone 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.919 was sort of sick of social media. They wanted to 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.920 go back in to just close friends and family. So 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.440 Path was an app that was beautifully designed. It allowed 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.120 you to share photos, video and messages with just a 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.719 limited amount of people, just your friends and family. I 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.400 think you can only have a certain amount on there. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.560 The problem is, well, we decided we like to go viral, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.960 we like to be public. We like to have random 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.520 strangers say ooh that looks cool, ooh you look like 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.560 you're in a cool place. Ooh, you look like you're 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.200 eating at a cool restaurant. Okay, now this was a 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:29.000 big one. Google Plus. I remember working at KTLA and 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.839 Google Plus came out and it might have been the 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.680 biggest thing we have ever seen in our entire lives. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.080 Google Plus was huge. It was launched by Google. It 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.800 was so complicated, but it was supposed to be a 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:48.560 challenger to Facebook, more private, more secure, better integrated with Google. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.200 And guess what, we all used it for about a 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.400 week and that was it. I loved Google Plus. I 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.240 love some of the features on there, it just never 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.000 took off. How about Vine? Remember Vine? Vine gave you 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.839 the ability to post six second videos. Now I never 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.760 got on Vine. I was never big on Vine, but 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.039 it was kind of a pathway to all of the 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.240 current social media networks that deal with creators. Vine is 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.800 where you really had to be super creative because you 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.880 had to catch someone's attention in six seconds or less 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.520 and be interesting and be funny and witty and smart 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.640 and cool. And these videos looped so you'd watch them 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.840 over and over, so these vines would have millions of views. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.120 Twitter bought Vine eventually shut it down, all right, Meerkat. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.000 I remember where I was for this one. This was 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.320 the first time you could stream live from your smartphone. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:44.240 What an amazing thing, streaming live from your smartphone. I 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.080 was at the Apple event up in Coopertino when this 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.800 came out, and it was revolutionary. And of course now 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.960 you can stream live from one thousand and one apps. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.359 Periscope came out a little bit later and kind of 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.040 overtook this. Periscope was unbought by two Twitter and Meerkat 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.440 was eventually shut down. So you see the pattern here, folks. Clubhouse, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.760 how about this one? Remember how hot Clubhouse was. You 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.480 couldn't even get on Clubhouse, that's how hot it was. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.080 Even the name Clubhouse reminds me of trying to get 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.040 into clubs in Hollywood. It's like, sorry, dude, not tonight. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.840 This was Clubhouse. This is an audio only app and 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.560 I believe it's still around. But it was kind of 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.720 built into Twitter as well with a feature called spaces 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.960 and it's an audio only app where people discuss things 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.680 in an audio only way, and it was it had 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.480 a moment and now I'm not sure what the deal 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:40.320 is with Clubhouse. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:40.960 Now. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:46.840 I didn't mention the successful social media networks Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.040 These have set the foundation for our social media world today. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.520 These are the apps that are probably installed in a 0:07:55.400 --> 0:08:02.040 majority of smartphones. If you just ask a couple of people, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.360 They are the rst lne of social media apps right 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:12.120 and now we have a new one, Instagram. Threads. People 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.040 were so unhappy with Twitter, they were looking for a 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.240 new outlet, and I think a lot of them found it. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:25.520 Threads is basically Twitter, but through Instagram. So you write 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.240 a post, people comment on. The posts are called threads. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.800 It's all about real time conversations and the neat thing 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.920 about threads. Not only that has seventy million people so overnight, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.400 it feels alive, it feels vibrant. It feels like your 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.720 best friends are on there, and also your mom. And 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.640 that's not a joke. I'm not saying your mom. I'm 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.960 just saying like she might be on there at this point. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.679 Because they made it so easy to sign up, you 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.920 log in with Instagram. It's available in one hundred countries 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:59.319 Europe excluded, by the way, because of privacy situation. Posts 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.520 can be up to five characters, they can include links, photos, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.360 and videos up to five minutes. You can share your 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:10.280 threads to an Instagram story, or they even made it 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.760 easy to post your thread to Twitter. I'm sure that'll 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.960 be blocked soon. It's just one of these things that 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.920 has taken off overnight and it's fun. And the reason 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.800 why it's fun is because people are on there, and 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.280 it's almost like the first day of school. All your 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.200 friends are there, everyone's chatting, everyone's having a great conversation. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.920 And the interesting thing about this not only is it 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.319 owned by Meta, which is a whole other conversation which 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.080 we'll talk about soon, but it's built on an open 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:42.280 platform called Activity pub which means theoretically, eventually you'll be 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.560 able to use other apps to not only interact with 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.079 people on threads, but also bring your threads account somewhere else. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.120 If Threads is not as fun anymore, you want to 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.720 go somewhere else, maybe use a different app. Mastodon is 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.920 one of the apps that also uses the same protocol. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.760 So that's kind of interesting that Facebook book would adopt 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.280 an open protocol for this app. So Threads available now. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.240 You can find me on there. I am at rich 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.840 on tech on threads and already just little old me 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.120 has over I think ten thousand people on there because 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.840 it let me bring over a lot or let my 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:21.439 Instagram followers find me there. So Threads, we're going to 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.079 talk about that more on the show today. We've got 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.920 some great guests. We've got a lot coming up. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:27.439 Coming up. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.200 We've got Casey Newton of Platformer. We're going to talk 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.680 all things threads. Casey is sort of the expert on 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.319 this thing. We also have Jacob Palmer of Best Reviews. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.280 He's going to join us to talk Amazon Prime Day deals. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.400 And then later in the show, doctor Renee Dua. She 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.560 created an app called Heel. You might have heard of it. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.520 It's a doctor on demand app. Well, she has a 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.120 new one. It's called Together and it can take your 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.680 vital signs with just a selfie. But first it is 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.679 your turn. We're going to have your calls coming up 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.080 next at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.800 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.600 You can email me hello at richontech dot TV. Give 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.640 me a call or email if you have a question 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.880 about technology. My name is rich Demiro and you are 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:23.320 listening to Rich on Tech. Let's go to Jennifer in 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.640 Laguna Beach. Jennifer, you're on with Rich. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:27.280 Hi. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:27.640 Rich. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.720 I have an iPhone and my traveling buddy has an Android. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.480 Is there an app that would work across platforms to 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.800 allow us to track each other's phones when we're on 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.040 trips together in case one of us misplaces our phone. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.280 Ooh, good call. So they have an Android? You have 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:45.960 an iPhone? 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:47.000 Right? 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.839 Okay? I think the best app for this is Life 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.240 three sixty. Have you heard of that? 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:53.440 No? 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.040 Okay? So Life three sixty is basically and there are 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.560 many many ways you can do this. There are many 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.640 many ways, but Life three sixty is probably one of 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.360 the best. Like location sharing, it's mostly for families, but 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.920 it can be used for friends as well, and it's 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.360 free for the main plan, so you can just sign 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.680 up and use it for free, which is kind of nice. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.880 And for free you get two days of location history, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.640 two places with alerts, so if you wanted, like if 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.439 you had a kid per se and you wanted to 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.720 know every time that kid got back to their house 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.760 or school, you can have two places set up and 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.480 then SOS help alert so you can install this app, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.719 you invite your friend, and next thing you know you're 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.960 both sharing your location on these on this app, cross platform, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.000 and this will work wherever you go. You'll be able 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.640 to see the last known location. You'll also be able 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.160 to see information about battery life on your phone. There's 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.439 a whole bunch of things built into this app that will, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.520 I believe help with what you're asking about. Does that 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.200 sound like it would work, Yeah. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:58.720 It really does. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.520 She misplaced her phone for a while on our last 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.200 trip together, and that's what made us think that if 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.200 we had a way we could try to each other's phone, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.480 it would have avoid a little bit. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:09.440 Of stress on her part. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.240 Now, if you have an Android phone or an iPhone, 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.800 there's a couple of ways to find and locate those 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.920 devices from any device, and so if you're an Android 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.320 device user, you can just literally Google Find my device. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.520 So if you go to Google dot com slash Android 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.719 slash find, you will see the last known look. You'll 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.280 see all of the devices on your Google account. Now, obviously, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.240 if it's her phone or their phone, you will they 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.040 will have to log in using their Google information, and 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.600 so that you know, keep that in mind, especially with 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.800 two factor authentication, But you can go to that as well, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.480 and then if you have an iPhone, I believe it's 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.160 iCloud dot com slash find. Let's see if that's the address. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.000 Yeap iCloud dot com slash find. So, no matter what, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.600 you can find the devices. The problem is for most 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.800 people they're gonna have to in from someone else's device. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:06.839 And guess what happens when that When that occurs, yeah. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.839 It's it's a challenge to get in, especially if you've 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.760 got two factors set up. It's gonna send its code. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.800 So the phone you can't find exactly do we have 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.800 a ding? That's uh, Jennifer, you got it. You don't 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.040 even need me anymore. See I'm telling you. So that's 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.640 the biggest problem. I mean, asking anyone to log in 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.480 for anything on their phone is usually a situation because 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:30.920 I'll tell people, you know, they'll come up to me 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.560 and they'll have a problem with their device. I'll say, oh, well, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.280 let's log into this, and they say, oh, I don't 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.240 know that password. It's gonna take me a while. So 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.400 I think the Life three sixty will be a good solution. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.760 I'm sure there are other solutions out there. There used 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.960 to be one from Google that we were using cross 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.040 platform that was pretty simple, but it was like a 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.480 trusted contact situation. But I think that the Life three 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.920 sixty app is set up to do things that you're 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.840 asking for, and I think that's going to be the 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.640 easiest way, uh to do it at this point. So 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.240 we're you headed, you said Europe. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.240 Yeah, we we went. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.280 To Ireland and Scotland last month and now in the 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.320 fall we're going to Italy. So oh yeah, I know. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.840 I don't know how I got this lucky. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.280 I promise I went to Italy. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.440 I'm not kidding. I went last year and there's not 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.240 been a day that goes by that I have not 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.600 thought about Italy in an entire year. So if you 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.040 want to check out my Instagram at rich on Tech, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.840 scroll through my highlights and just look at Rome, and 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.760 I'm not kidding, you will be so excited for your 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.080 trip you can't wait. We had such a great time 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.120 and it was just four days. I met my wife 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.880 out there, she was on a work trip and we 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.560 had such an amazing time. All right, Jennifer, thanks so 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.920 much for calling today. I appreciate it. Let me tell 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.360 you about the latest social media scam. According to the 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.880 BBB Better Business Bureau, their scam tracker is getting a 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.240 whole bunch of numerous a whole bunch of reports. It 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.040 sounds like a friendly neighbor trying to give away their piano. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:01.479 But guess what, not so fast sopens through Facebook Marketplace. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.960 Someone's trying to get rid of their piano. But all 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.360 you have to do is pay the shipping costs and 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.360 they will put you in touch with the movers who 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.080 will deliver it. Guess what They're gonna ask for money 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.520 via zell, PayPal or another digital wallet app. They may 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.320 even ask you to wire money or pay with a 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.280 prepaid debit card. You send the money, the piano never arrives. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.720 One person fell for eight hundred and forty three dollars 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.920 of this scam. Another person fourteen and twenty four dollars. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.120 Do not fall for this scam. It's apparently happening on Facebook, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:35.440 Marketplace and other platforms. Don't take the free piano unless 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.360 you see it on the street. It's probably not free. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.560 It goes back to that old adage, if it sounds 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.840 too good to be true, it probably is. Ah so 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.400 many scams every day, all right, coming up, we are 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.720 going to talk to Casey Newton of Platformer Casey's gonna 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.800 talk all things threads. I've already had people say they 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.920 found me on there, so I am at rich on 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.440 Tech on Threads. If you haven't downloaded the app, I'll 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.440 give you a little trick real quick. If you search 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.480 inside Instagram for threads, a little ticket comes up. You 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.800 tap that ticket and it will bring you to Threads. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.160 Coming up, we'll talk more about Instagram and Meta's new 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:23.320 social network. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.520 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.080 with you, talking technology. Plus your calls at triple eight 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:35.160 rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.439 to two, four to one zero one. If you have 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.439 a call, hop on the line and give me a 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.520 give me a ring. Don't forget to sign up for 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.840 the newsletter. Just go to rich on Tech dot tv. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.239 Hit the newsletter icon or the link and you can 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.200 sign up for a newsletter which is sort of dormant 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.680 right now. But you never know when I will send 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.719 something amazing out, so get on the list. It's free. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:03.000 Might as well be there. Samsung has announced that they 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.199 are doing their next event in Korea. We knew that, 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.399 but now we have a date. The date is July 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.960 twenty sixth. Unpacked will be held for the very first 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:19.120 time in Soeul, Korea. They say this is where traditional 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.679 culture and futuristic visions intersect to inspire global trends and 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.760 game changing innovation. So this event will be live streamed 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.679 all over the place, including YouTube, Samsung TV Plus. I 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.480 was actually at the barber shop and that was the 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.239 first time I saw someone using Samsung TV Plus. It's 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.359 kind of like their free TV built into all of 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.119 their devices. There's a lot of programming on there. So 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.439 what are they going to announce at this event? You 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.440 already know. Oh, it's said join the flip side, So 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.679 I think we already have an idea. So we're going 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:57.960 to see the new Samsung Galaxy Z flip five and 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:03.520 Z fold five, and so those devices will be pretty 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.560 hot this time around, because foldables are a pretty big 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.200 deal right now. We've got them from Google, we've got 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.720 them coming up from one plus, and of course Samsung 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.040 was the leader in this spot, but now they've got 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.600 some good competition. So the event is actually going to 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.080 happen at seven am Eastern, but because it's in Seoul, Korea, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.400 I believe it's going to be a nighttime event, and 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:26.800 I guess I can tell you this now, but I 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.159 will be there. So I am very, very excited to 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.720 go to Korea and experience what it's going to be 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:38.480 like there from their perspective, because I believe I would 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.840 have to imagine that Korea is probably very popular with 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.480 Samsung devices, whereas here in America we are very iPhone centric, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.960 and so we'll see what happens. It'll be interesting. Other 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:57.960 things to note, Volkswagen launching their first autonomous driving test 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:02.560 program here in the US. It's gonna happen in Austin, Texas. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.040 If you listen to the show, you know I was 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.600 in Austin, Texas recently. So this is gonna kick off 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:13.320 this month with ten all electric ID Buzz vehicles. This 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.399 is that little van I called it. Well, it's kind 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.120 of like when I was a kid we had a van. Again. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.240 It kind of reminds me of that. So this is 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.639 gonna be ten of these cars outfitted with autonomous driving 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.280 technology developed by Volkswagen in partnership with a company called 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.240 Mobile Eye, and they're gonna test this over the next 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.080 three years and they're gonna keep growing this fleet. So 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.600 it's gonna start with ten and keep going more, and 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.359 they're gonna expand to at least four more cities in 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.840 the US. I can already guess what those cities are 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.080 gonna be. Probably gonna be Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.240 maybe San Francisco. Those are the cities that have been 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:55.199 historically nice to self driving cars. So let's see what 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.720 do they say. They're gonna be driven thousands of miles 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.600 across a wide diversity of drive scenarios, and the technology 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:07.080 on board includes cameras, radar, and light ar, and all 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.040 vehicles would be staffed with a supervising human driver at 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:14.280 all times throughout this initial test phase. So it's happening. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:19.280 Self driving cars definitely happening. It's happening fast up in 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:23.400 San Francisco. Apparently people are using cones to disable they're 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.840 so annoyed with these self driving cars, they're using cones 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.760 to disable them. I guess they put the cone on 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:30.960 the hood of the car and it stops going. And 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.240 they say that they're doing this because these these self 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.360 driving cars are not only annoying, but they're ruining the streets. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.200 They're causing traffic tie ups. They don't always work right 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.760 and people aren't happy there, all right, give me a 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.280 call at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:51.040 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:58.160 We do have our guest, Casey Newton of Platformer. Casey 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.639 is kind of a big deal. Casey talks about social 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:07.520 media and its relationship with the world. Very popular newsletter 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.240 at platformer dot news. And it took me a while 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:15.320 to get Casey on this show because Casey's a busy guy. 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.840 So we are welcome to Casey to the show. Do 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.119 we have them, Casey? Can you hear me? 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:23.280 Yes? 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:23.680 I can't. 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:23.879 Hi. 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:26.439 Hey, welcome to the show. Thanks for joining me. 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.760 Hey, I'm sorry to be here. Sorry I'm a little 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:31.639 bit late. It's been a moving week for me, so 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:32.600 everything is insane. 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.520 I hear that, so no problem, but welcome to the show. 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.080 Thanks for joining me. Let's talk about threads. I am 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:42.760 sure this has consumed your entire week, because has this 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:45.440 been the fastest social media network to ever reach seventy 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.119 million people in two days? 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:48.680 It has an In. 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.480 Fact, people are saying it might be the fastest app 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.360 to hit one hundred million users ever, So we really 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:56.639 have not seen anything like it. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:58.879 So how do you describe threads? I just said, it's 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.040 kind of like Instagram's version of Twitter. How do you 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:01.679 describe it? 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.360 I think that that's about right. You know. The basic 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:09.000 idea is to create a place where people. 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:13.159 Can write sentences, share links, post photos and gifts, and 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.040 just have public conversations. 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.320 So that's definitely what Twitter is. 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:20.000 And Meta will tell you that they're not trying to 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.439 clone Twitter, that they want to make something better than Twitter, 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:24.840 but at least the one point zero version looks a 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:25.879 heck of a lot like Twitter. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.840 So what is your initial take on this? I mean, 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.120 you've been following this very closely. I know you tried 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.399 to be on vacation this week but that didn't happen, 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.640 and you also got an interview in your podcast hard 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:41.439 Fork with Adam Osseri, who heads Instagram. So what are 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:42.879 your impressions of this? Tell me? 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.359 Well, you know, I like it a lot. I'm somebody 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.439 who found Twitter very useful in doing my work. 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:52.880 It's where I sort of got a sense of how 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.480 people felt about what was going on in the news. 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.400 It's where I would see stories as they were breaking. 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:01.240 It would help me understand what I wanted to write. 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:03.760 About during the day, and so when it started to 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.800 collapse over the past six months, I was really sad 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.080 and I felt like there needs to be a replacement 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:12.399 for this, like this set of important things cannot be 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:16.240 entrusted to Elon Musk. And so when this week we 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:20.720 got something that effectively is a replacement for Twitter, and 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.080 it started to grow very quickly, I just got very 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:25.760 excited because I thought, this thing is going to solve 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:27.399 all of the problems that Twitter. 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:27.919 Used to solve for me. 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:31.320 And so how is it compared to Twitter? Because I've 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:33.800 been sort of flipping back and forth between the two. 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.159 I'm sure I'm not the only person doing that. But 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.200 at some point we sort of have to choose. Does 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.560 that come soon? Does that come later? What's that process? 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:42.760 Like? 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:46.680 Well, I would say to people, you can choose now, 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:49.080 you can stop using Twitter. There's no point to using Twitter. 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:51.359 The Twitter experience is only going to get worse. Just 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:53.600 look at the past six months. Everything that used to 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:56.360 be free now costs you eight bucks a month. Okay, 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:58.280 maybe that feels like a good experience to you. It 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:00.560 doesn't feel like a good experience to me. What I 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.400 used to get on Twitter for free, I can now 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:04.600 get on threads for free. And I think the fact 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.800 that so many people are moving over so quickly tells 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:10.200 you about the demand for a product like that. 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:14.159 And so you said it's free, what about the idea 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.000 that this is owned by Meta? And just a few 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:20.239 years ago people didn't really like Meta either because of 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:24.679 all of the privacy issues in situation there. So what 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:26.159 do we make of that at this point? Do we 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:28.480 feel like metas cleaned up their act? 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:31.360 Well, I do think that they're better at a lot 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:34.080 of things than they used to be in twenty sixteen. 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.520 But I definitely understand why people are skeptical, and we 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:39.680 should be skeptical. You know, at the end of the day, 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:42.320 these are for profit companies. They're trying to make a 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:46.760 buck and they need, you know, journalists, regulators, academics to 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:48.920 keep an eye on them and make sure that they're 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:52.480 not doing, you know, anything inappropriate with with our data, 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:55.919 our privacy, or anything else. At the same time, for me, 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.960 it's just like, you know, the order of the day 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:02.560 was to replace, and so let's focus on that, and 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:04.560 then after that's done, then we can sort of bring 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:05.760 all that scrutiny. 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:06.040 Back to Meta. 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.840 So Threads you're finding. I think the key genius to 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:15.080 this whole situation is that your followers can follow you 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:18.200 very easily on Threads, and that made this place very 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:20.879 quickly vibrant and alive. Is that kind of like the 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:21.560 magic of it? 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:22.920 Yeah? 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:26.360 I mean Instagram was just in such a great position 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:29.840 to do this because they already had a very Twitter 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:33.199 like user base, right in the sense that it was 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:39.720 a lot of normal people following celebrities, influencers, athletes, journalists. 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:40.440 Sometimes. 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:44.120 It was just that the medium was much more visual, 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:47.239 and that turns out to be a perfect springboard to 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:49.640 launch something that is going to be a little bit 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:51.960 more text based, right. You just sort of build a 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:56.280 different container and then you import all of those accounts 0:26:56.400 --> 0:27:00.200 and it's just again, it's been really amazing seeing how 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:02.879 in just a few short days so many of the 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:06.320 really prominent users of Instagram have gone ahead and set 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:08.479 up Threads account and are going crazy posting. 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:11.679 Now. One of the things that Mosseeri said, I believe 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:14.760 on your podcast, and that he didn't really see this 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:18.040 as a place for hard news. Now, I think that 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:21.280 many of the Threads users would already disagree with that. 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:24.280 Can they control what happens on this platform. 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:29.760 Uh, mostly No. You know, I think that was an 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:33.480 interesting statement. It's gotten a lot of attention. In practice, 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:36.199 these companies always just follow the lead of the users. 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:38.479 You know, if the users of Threads decide that they 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:40.399 want to see news on threads, there's going to be 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:43.200 news on Threads. I saw that statement as a little 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:45.760 bit of a marketing pitch, right. I think if you're 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:48.760 trying to sell a new app to consumers, running out 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:52.000 and saying, hey, there's gonna be a lot of breaking 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:55.480 news on here, a lot of really divisive political stories, 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:58.520 does it really seem very enticing. If instead you come 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:00.640 out and say, hey, this is a place for creators 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:03.560 and we want to have really kind fun conversations, you're 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:05.639 probably going to be better off. So I think that 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:08.600 was kind of the spirit in which Adam said that. 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:10.800 But at the same time, this company has a lot 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:15.000 of scar tissue around journalism, right, Like, they they're under 0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:18.480 so much scrutiny for you know, what, which publishers are 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.439 on the platform and who's getting the most distribution. You know, 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:23.640 there are laws in Australia and Canada that are trying 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:26.119 to force them to pay just to display links, So 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:31.320 they're they're really I think anxious about having some of 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:32.560 the same problems that Twitter did. 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:36.640 Now when you copied over your username to threads, you're 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:40.160 Crumbler on Instagram, and you said, at some point, I 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:42.120 wish that maybe I would have thought about that a 0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:45.640 little bit more so the username or the username comes over. 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:49.000 You've been very active on threads since it started, So 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:51.400 tell me what your impressions are of it. What do 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:51.920 you think. 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:56.720 Well, you know, one thing that I think is interesting 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:59.920 about it is, particularly for those first couple of days, 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:03.000 if you posted anything, there was a good chance that 0:29:03.080 --> 0:29:06.600 it would show up essentially in the feed that everyone 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:09.840 was looking at. So imagine being able to post directly 0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:12.280 to the for you page on TikTok and just have 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:14.120 kind of the whole world seeing what you were doing, 0:29:14.360 --> 0:29:16.680 even if they didn't follow you. That was kind of 0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:19.840 the experience. And so you know, TikTok, I'm sorry. Threads 0:29:19.840 --> 0:29:23.400 by default will sort of buzz your phone every time 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:25.360 you get a like or a reply or a mention, 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:28.320 and so I would post something on threads in those 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:30.640 first couple of days and my phone was just like shaking, 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:31.160 like it was. 0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:32.680 Having a nervous breakdown or something. 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:35.760 I mean, everything was going bananas, and you know, of 0:29:35.760 --> 0:29:37.600 course I do feel silly about it, but at the 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:39.080 end of the day, I think we all do get 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:42.000 a seratonin hit when you publish something on a network 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:43.880 like this and you know a lot of people start 0:29:43.880 --> 0:29:47.040 to like it. So there was absolutely something addictive just 0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:50.000 about posting thinking like, hey, you know, I mean, you know, 0:29:50.120 --> 0:29:52.920 not to brag rich, but I posted something a couple 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:56.000 of days ago and like Sarah Jessica Parker was like, oh, yeah, 0:29:56.000 --> 0:29:56.760 this is interesting. 0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:58.200 And by the way, I love your podcast. 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:01.160 I was like, that is like beyond my wildest dreams 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:02.800 of anything that would ever happen to me on a 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:03.480 social network. 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:05.120 So made me very pro Threads. 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:09.000 Wow, that's wild. Yes, that is that is exciting if 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:11.000 you get that kind of comment. It's funny because I 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:13.120 kept looking at people who are commenting on my stuff 0:30:13.120 --> 0:30:14.480 and I was like, wait, do I know this person? 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:17.240 Do I follow them? Because I guess what you're saying 0:30:17.280 --> 0:30:18.800 is what happened to me is that some of my 0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:21.719 posts might have gotten into like other people's feeds, and 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:23.640 that is actually one and we're gonna leave it at this, 0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:25.400 but that's one of the things that people are saying 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:27.600 to me, like, Rich, I don't know if I like 0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:31.200 this because I'm getting other people's stuff in my feed. 0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:33.560 What do you say to that. I mean, is that 0:30:33.680 --> 0:30:36.120 a problem or should we be exposed to other things? 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:37.520 Yeah? 0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:40.320 I mean I think eventually they will probably roll out 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:43.200 away for you to see only posts from people that 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:43.840 you're following. 0:30:43.840 --> 0:30:46.560 I think that'll be a good thing. But I think, 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:48.160 you know, the first. 0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:50.480 Job that every new social network has is to just 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:52.320 convince you that enough is going on there that you 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:54.360 should bother to pay attention to it. And if it 0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:56.480 had to rely on you to go follow a bunch 0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:59.800 of people that were very active and interesting, odds are 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:02.400 you wouldn't find it very interesting. So I think it's 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:04.480 smart to show you a bunch of stuff from people 0:31:04.520 --> 0:31:06.200 that you don't follow. And of course, you know, if 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:07.880 you see anything you don't like, just mute it and 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:09.280 hopefully your feet will get better. 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:13.560 All right, Casey Newton from Platformer dot News. Sign up 0:31:13.560 --> 0:31:16.240 for the newsletter, uh and of course find you on 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:18.440 threads at crumbler. 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:21.400 Right. That's right, Thanks so much, Rich, All. 0:31:21.400 --> 0:31:24.280 Right, thanks for joining me today. Coming up more of 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:27.160 your calls at triple A Rich one oh one, that's 0:31:27.280 --> 0:31:30.320 eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:33.440 zero one. If you have a question about threads, give 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:35.560 me a call. What do you want to know about it? 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:37.200 What do you think of it? Are you going to 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:41.120 switch over? I'm open. This is an open conversation. You 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:49.080 are listening to Rich on tech. Tim is in more Park, Tim, 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:50.240 You're on with Rich. 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:55.240 A defuctive spectrum modem. Burn my knees, my legs while 0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:57.840 I slip in a bud that was on the other 0:31:57.920 --> 0:32:02.520 side of the whap from the defective from modem. I 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:05.400 asked the all I threw d in the bed about 0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:08.600 five different days, about eight hours each day. When I 0:32:08.680 --> 0:32:12.040 each day, when I woke up after the eight hours, 0:32:12.400 --> 0:32:15.760 my knees were on fire. They were burning inside. When 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.280 they weren't hot, they were burning inside and it was 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:19.040 hard to walk. 0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:20.920 Well I would have I would have stopped sleeping in 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:24.280 the bed after the first day. Why'd you go eight days? 0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:27.520 Oh my gosh, I would return the modem, get rid 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:29.640 of the modem. If it's that hot, I don't know 0:32:29.680 --> 0:32:33.680 what it's doing to go through your wall, but that 0:32:33.840 --> 0:32:36.240 is I know these things get hot. That's for sure, 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:40.000 and it's actually a good lesson to learn is that 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:45.920 you probably don't want to put these modems inside an 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:50.000 enclosed container. So these modems, if you look at them, 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:53.680 they've got a lot of breathing areas on them because 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:56.640 they can get hot. That you know, it's it's traveling. 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.480 A lot of Internet is traveling through those pipes. So 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:02.680 when you are setting up your modem, you definitely want 0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:05.360 to put it in a place that is open on 0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:07.400 all sides. A lot of people will put these things 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:10.360 in a drawer, they'll put them in a cabinet, they'll 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:12.640 put them behind a TV, which is also putting out 0:33:12.760 --> 0:33:18.960 some of that heat. But tim definitely get professional help 0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:21.320 if you are in fact, you know, if this is 0:33:21.360 --> 0:33:25.480 a something that burns you for you know, more than 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:27.320 just a day or two. But after the first day, 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.680 why would you sleep in the same bed. I mean, 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:31.960 if this thing is doing this over and over, day 0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:35.040 after day, night after night, you got you gotta nip 0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:37.440 it in the butt, unplugged that thing and get rid 0:33:37.480 --> 0:33:40.320 of it. They do have some spectrum stores. Maybe just 0:33:40.360 --> 0:33:43.920 bring it into one of those and see what you 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:45.320 you know, if they can get you a new one. 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:49.120 But yeah, again, the lesson learned here and I hope 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:52.560 you're okay, Tim, is that don't put these things well, 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:54.240 first off, don't let it happen more than once. And 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:57.120 second off, don't put these things in a enclosed area 0:33:57.200 --> 0:33:59.720 because they can get hot. And we don't hear a 0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:03.000 lot of stories like that, but for sure things can happen, 0:34:03.200 --> 0:34:06.680 so good thing to be aware of, that's for sure. 0:34:08.280 --> 0:34:11.359 Let's see, Oh did you see Thanks for the call. 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:14.759 By the way, did you see this sphere? This thing 0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:17.759 in Las Vegas which I actually had the ability to 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.719 visit last year and while they're building it. It's the 0:34:21.840 --> 0:34:27.000 world's largest LED screen, five hundred and eighty thousand square 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:30.000 feet of fully programmable LED lighting. They lit it up 0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:33.800 for the first time on July fourth, and it's called 0:34:33.840 --> 0:34:38.480 the Sphere sph E r E Sphere Las Vegas. You 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:40.120 gotta look up the video on this I've got on 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:44.239 my Instagram at rich On Tech. They can basically make 0:34:44.280 --> 0:34:47.800 this thing look like a giant moon, a giant fireworks show. 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:51.239 I mean, I'm not kidding. When Aliens and UFO see 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:53.239 this thing from space, they are going to want to 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:55.000 phone home because they're going to be like, I want 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:57.320 to see what that is. They're gonna come in close 0:34:58.040 --> 0:35:01.719 and land. This is like an alien beacon in our 0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:04.480 sky in Las Vegas. It is so big. But I 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:06.480 had the ability to go inside last year while they 0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:08.759 were building it, and it is quite impressive. It's a 0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:13.120 giant sphere. They're gonna do like concerts and shows inside. 0:35:13.360 --> 0:35:15.800 It's a little too small for a sports arena inside, 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.239 but it is quite incredible. So look it up. Go 0:35:18.280 --> 0:35:20.400 to my Instagram at rich on Tech. Check out the 0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:23.359 video of this sphere being lit up for the very 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:25.800 first time. All right, more of your calls at Triple 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:27.560 eight rich one on one. Give me a call at 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:31.319 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:41.439 Let's talk tech. Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:46.200 out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:50.200 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:54.279 four to one zero one. This hour, we will talk 0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:58.759 Amazon Prime Day deals. Jacob Palmer of the website Best 0:35:58.880 --> 0:36:03.399 Reviews dot com. We'll join to talk what you need 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:06.960 to know, what's different, what's new, what to look for, 0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:10.320 and what people are buying on Prime Day, which happens 0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:14.600 on the eleventh and twelfth this year July eleventh and twelfth, 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:17.719 so it is right around the corner also this week. 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:19.600 Since I keep you up to date on all the 0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:21.520 movies I watch, I can't believe I was so late 0:36:21.560 --> 0:36:24.319 to this one, but I did watch the sci fi 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:29.600 horror thriller movie Megan. I just realized it's actually spelled 0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:32.480 with a three in her name, Megan m three gam. 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:35.520 So this was on my list for a long time 0:36:35.640 --> 0:36:37.720 and then I forgot about it. It got all the buzz, 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.279 and then I was flipping through Amazon Prime and I 0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:42.120 saw that it was on there for free if you 0:36:42.120 --> 0:36:45.160 know you're an Amazon Prime member, and I watched it 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:47.719 and it was It was so great. I mean, if 0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:52.160 you like a campy horror movie, sci fi especially. It's 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:55.160 funny because this movie was right before all the AI 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:59.160 stuff took off, and so it's like nowadays, if they 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:01.400 made the same exact movie, like even a year later, 0:37:01.719 --> 0:37:04.520 it would be all about AI and chatchypt. But it 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.919 was right before that. But it was still really really good. 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:11.439 It's about this doll that sort of comes to life, 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:12.920 has a mind of her own, not like in the 0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:17.239 Chucky style, similar but just more modern. Anyway, if you 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:20.360 like a campy horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:25.520 Check it out. Let's go to Reggie in Charleston, South Carolina. Reggie, 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:26.479 you're on with Rich. 0:37:27.320 --> 0:37:30.200 Hey, Rich, I think I may have done something very 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:33.120 terrible today. But maybe you can tell me that I'm 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:37.160 okay and I will not lose my house tomorrow. 0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:39.920 Oh no, well, let's hear what she did. What happened? Reggie? 0:37:40.080 --> 0:37:44.360 Okay, I have a small business. I do custom home 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:45.680 and PEP portraits. 0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:47.040 Oh that's fun. 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:53.480 Yes, And I advertise on Facebook and this morning I 0:37:53.640 --> 0:37:58.160 received a message from them telling me that I perhaps 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:02.920 was using my accounts fraudulently and that it really wasn't me. 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:05.759 You got an email or a notification? How did that 0:38:05.880 --> 0:38:06.239 come out? 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:11.520 It was a notification through Facebook? Okay, So they asked 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:16.520 me to send a photograph of my driver's license and 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:20.880 I did. Am I in trouble? I mean? Have I 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:25.800 gotten scammed? Or is this? And I haven't heard another 0:38:25.840 --> 0:38:30.040 single thing. I checked my advertising. Everything is still good. 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:34.399 But I'm just wondering if it was a scam and 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:39.160 I just sent my driver's license information to some weird person. 0:38:39.440 --> 0:38:41.960 Okay, Well, how did you send this driver's license. 0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:46.239 I sent it to the email that they sent me. 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:50.560 I just forwarded it. It looked said it was from 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:55.040 Meta and so they had a link and said just 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:59.120 upload the picture. And I uploaded the picture. 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:02.719 And I sent can you tell me the email address? Like, 0:39:02.760 --> 0:39:05.000 what is the domain of the email address? 0:39:05.160 --> 0:39:09.319 So there was no real domain. It just came up 0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:11.000 on my Facebook information. 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:13.239 Okay, So it came up on your Facebook as a 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:18.000 notification and you click the notification and then but if 0:39:18.040 --> 0:39:21.799 you're emailing the driver's license, you had to send it 0:39:21.840 --> 0:39:23.879 to some sort of address. Can you check in your 0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:26.840 sent email or was it sent through your Facebook messages? 0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:29.759 Yes, it was sent through my Facebook messages. And now 0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:31.799 I can't seem to go back and find it. 0:39:32.040 --> 0:39:35.480 Okay. So that so now here's the thing. There's a 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:38.440 couple of things going on. Number One, there are many 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:44.320 many scams that happen on Facebook that involve fraudulent activity. 0:39:44.360 --> 0:39:48.400 They say, oh, your account's been flagged, you have fraudulent activity. 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:50.400 You need to do this. I get. And what they 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:53.200 do is they actually tag you in sort of a page. 0:39:53.239 --> 0:39:56.400 Sometimes they'll say your page has been flagged. And I 0:39:56.440 --> 0:39:59.280 get these all the time on my Facebook like almost 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:02.399 on a daily basi, and so yes, I would say 0:40:02.440 --> 0:40:07.520 for the most part, ignore them. Number two the Facebook. 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:09.600 Now here's the interesting part, and this is what scam 0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:12.839 artists specialize in. They try to do things that are 0:40:12.920 --> 0:40:16.160 very similar to what you actually have to do. Now. Facebook, 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:19.080 if you are hacked, many times they will ask you 0:40:19.480 --> 0:40:23.520 to submit a driver's license because they want to verify 0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:24.960 you are who you say they are. But when I've 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:28.600 seen that happen, it's not an email. They actually will 0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:31.000 have you hold your driver's license in front of your 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:35.359 webcam and it will scan it that way. Now I'm 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:38.240 a little concerned, Reggie that you sent your driver's license 0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:42.080 because it may be in the hands of someone that 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:45.799 should not have it. So here's what I think you 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:48.440 need to do. Number one, do you have two factor 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:52.040 authentication set up on your Facebook account? 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:53.160 No? 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:55.239 Okay, that's the number one thing you need to do 0:40:55.360 --> 0:40:58.200 right now. I would go through and set that up 0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:01.439 right now. So if you just go to Facebook dot 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:05.200 com slash security, that's the first thing you want to 0:41:05.239 --> 0:41:06.799 do is make sure you set it up. If you 0:41:06.840 --> 0:41:11.319 are operating a business on your Facebook page, you have 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:14.680 to do that. Facebook dot Com let's see here, I 0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:17.000 want to make sure I get this email address right. 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:22.759 Facebook two factor authentication, so just actually just google that 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:26.160 and just say you go to your security and login settings, 0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:29.520 so there's like a little there's a little you know, 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:32.680 just it's face. Sorry, it's Facebook dot com, slash settings 0:41:32.760 --> 0:41:36.040 and look for security. So that's where you want to go. 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:38.439 That's the number one thing I would do. Number two 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:42.560 I would anytime you get an alert like this, you 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:45.880 really have to scrutinize it. You weren't doing anything wrong 0:41:46.120 --> 0:41:50.360 on Facebook. You probably haven't done anything that is a problem, 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:52.160 and so I think that you have to be just 0:41:52.200 --> 0:41:55.080 skeptical of anytime someone's saying, hey, you know, you're doing 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:58.399 something illegal or wrong, you'd have to be like, wait 0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:00.640 a second, what, I don't know if that was that's 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:01.520 me or not? Right. 0:42:02.960 --> 0:42:07.080 Well, the thing is rich they blocked me one time 0:42:07.160 --> 0:42:09.960 because they thought I was trying to sell pets. 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:13.879 Oh okay, now that's another Okay, now that does make 0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:17.560 some more sense. That could be. Yeah. Now, I've have 0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:22.640 heard stories about Facebook, especially Marketplace, will block people based 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:25.920 on selling you know, inauthentic goods or of course, pets 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:28.279 is a huge thing online. Right now where people are 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:31.839 scamming people with pets. So now I'm just curious when 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:36.719 you submitted this ID. Was the process? Was it through 0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:38.320 your phone? Was it through a desktop? 0:42:39.000 --> 0:42:42.280 It was my iPad? On everything on my iPad? 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.480 And how did you scan your ID? Did you take 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:45.200 a picture of it? 0:42:45.280 --> 0:42:47.439 I just took a picture of it. They actually had 0:42:47.480 --> 0:42:51.720 the link and just said press here and send a picture. 0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.399 And they said either you know, if they don't ask 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.640 for my credit card, I never would have given it. 0:42:56.640 --> 0:42:57.920 Through yeah, yeah, but. 0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:03.160 Then asking for my identification. I was so afraid that 0:43:03.239 --> 0:43:05.200 they were going to shut me off again because it 0:43:05.239 --> 0:43:08.520 took me a long time to prove to Facebook that 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:10.560 I was doing pet portraits. 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:11.719 Okay, I don't know. 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:15.040 That might be a good thing because my pet portraits 0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:18.920 are pretty good, and they thought I was selling pets, 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:21.960 and so that's what I was afraid was happening again. 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:25.880 Okay, Well, it sounds like this actually could be legitimate 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:29.319 if it came through a notification, and it seemed like 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:33.400 it was a legitimate kind of activity through there. But 0:43:33.600 --> 0:43:36.840 I think that the bigger question is, you know, you 0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:39.759 have to be very critical of these notifications, and it 0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:42.360 didn't come through an email you said, right, No, it did. 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:44.400 Not come through many I would have been more concerned. 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:46.320 It came right through my Facebook page. 0:43:46.520 --> 0:43:49.200 Right. But here's the thing. So, and that doesn't necessarily 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:52.359 mean that it's legitimate, but it means that it you know, 0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:55.720 these scam artists have found ways of getting around all 0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:58.319 of the different policies in place by all of these 0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:00.560 social networks, and believe me, they will try. Now, the 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:04.040 good news is it's your ID, so it's not your 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:06.319 credit card. I'm not sure what they could do with 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:08.640 this ID. I don't think they I don't think someone 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:11.160 should have it that shouldn't. But at the same time, 0:44:11.320 --> 0:44:12.799 it's your ID. You know, you have to show your 0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:14.879 idea at the grocery store. Sometimes they take a scan 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:15.600 of it, you know. 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:16.319 So. 0:44:18.000 --> 0:44:19.600 You know, what could they do with that if this 0:44:19.800 --> 0:44:23.840 was fraudulent. Most of the time, if it's a fraudulent activity, 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:26.920 they want your credit card information, your bank account information. 0:44:26.960 --> 0:44:29.440 They want you to send, you know, some sort of 0:44:29.480 --> 0:44:33.200 gift card or cash or whatever, or a wire service. 0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:36.920 So I think you might be okay, But Reggie, I 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:39.800 would just in the future be very cautious and maybe 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:43.080 wait for the second time you get an alert if 0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:45.239 if that's the case, And did you get any sort 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:47.560 of confirmation through your email that you did this? 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:53.760 No, I got I got nothing, no confirmation. I've received 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:56.200 nothing from them since I did it. Of course, my 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:58.120 husband's been yelling at me everything. 0:44:58.400 --> 0:45:01.360 Well, yeah, that doesn't take much us husbands. Sometimes you know, 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:06.560 it happens. But here's the thing. I would next time 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:09.000 take a screenshot before you do anything in that way 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:11.279 if there if there comes to be a question, right 0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:14.160 at least you know, like hey, like if I'm asking you, 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:15.680 like if you call me again and say I did this, 0:45:15.760 --> 0:45:18.000 I can say, hey, what would what did it say? Exactly? 0:45:18.040 --> 0:45:19.600 Because a lot of times we do these things so 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:23.360 fast that we forget exactly what it said. You forget 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:25.960 it a Was it an official Facebook page? Was it 0:45:25.960 --> 0:45:28.880 an official logo? So a screenshot can help. And on 0:45:28.920 --> 0:45:31.239 the iPhone, you take a screenshot by pressing the side 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:34.239 button and the up button. On the androids it's the 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:36.880 power button plus the down button. So just remember that 0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:39.839 for future reference. But Reggie, I think you're gonna be okay. 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:42.320 I would just be on the lookout for anything unusual 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:44.719 on your account, and I would definitely set up that 0:45:44.719 --> 0:45:48.239 two two factor authentication as soon as you can. The 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:51.000 other thing I would look at right now is on 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:54.400 that Facebook dot Com slash settings, go to that security 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:56.480 tab and just see where it says you're logged in. 0:45:56.920 --> 0:45:59.480 If you're logged in on any places that you don't 0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:03.399 recogn just get rid of those places or log out 0:46:03.400 --> 0:46:06.200 of all sessions and log in again. And I'm looking 0:46:06.280 --> 0:46:08.680 at mine. I've got a ton of logins I need 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:11.120 to clean up as well. Thanks for the call, Reggie, 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:15.680 I appreciate it, by bye. All right, Yeah, just be 0:46:15.760 --> 0:46:18.200 aware of these things. That's I think the biggest thing 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:21.680 is is just to really be critical of any notification 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:25.319 or email you're getting. Be critical of the source, look 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:28.440 at where it's coming from, think about what it's asking 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:31.560 you to do, and understand why is it asking me 0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:34.600 to do this? And in Reggie's case, she did it 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:37.040 really fast because she wanted to be on the good 0:46:37.080 --> 0:46:40.000 side of Facebook. And that's what they're praying upon. I'm 0:46:40.000 --> 0:46:42.160 not saying that we know this is a scam for sure, 0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:44.359 but that's what they pray upon. They pray upon us 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:47.760 doing things really fast, really quick, just to get things 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:50.800 back to normal. All right, Coming up if you have 0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:52.960 a call, give me or if you have a question, 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:55.480 give me a call at Triple eight rich one oh one. 0:46:55.520 --> 0:46:58.040 That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:46:58.080 --> 0:47:02.279 one zero one. You can also email hello at Richontech 0:47:02.360 --> 0:47:02.960 dot tv. 0:47:03.560 --> 0:47:04.000 Coming up. 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:06.840 I'll tell you what to do if you lose an 0:47:06.840 --> 0:47:10.000 air tech the number one thing you need to do immediately. 0:47:10.680 --> 0:47:17.040 You are listening to rich on Tech Triple eight rich 0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:19.840 one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:24.200 four one zero one. Mark is in Los Angeles, Mark, 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:24.919 what's up? 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:25.839 Hey? 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:28.279 How you doing? I'm turning on my radio. Hey, I 0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:29.400 got a challenge here for you. 0:47:29.480 --> 0:47:32.560 Man, challenge? Uh oh, what is like a TikTok challenge? 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:37.120 No no, no, no no no, no kicktok. That's Spear 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:40.080 in Las Vegas, right, sure, it just it just opened 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:45.799 on July twenty, well, the fourth of julyfe yes. My 0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:49.439 question is who do you think is going to open that? Saying, man, 0:47:49.760 --> 0:47:56.200 it's like a seventeen seventeen thousand people, eighteen thousand maybe arena. 0:47:57.280 --> 0:48:00.800 My guess is going to be swift, and I'm no swifty, 0:48:00.880 --> 0:48:05.839 but I like to put it out there in Vegas Land. 0:48:06.680 --> 0:48:09.279 There's gonna be a bit for this one. Well, it's 0:48:09.280 --> 0:48:10.040 going to open. 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:13.239 There would be. Now have you seen this thing in 0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:14.279 person yet? 0:48:14.880 --> 0:48:17.160 No, I've seen it only online. 0:48:17.320 --> 0:48:18.160 And you saw the video. 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:20.239 I guess is that somebody's going to open there. 0:48:21.000 --> 0:48:24.719 Well I can. Yeah, it's it's it's quite incredible. And 0:48:24.800 --> 0:48:28.840 I was inside before it opened and it's it's big. 0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:32.160 But here's the thing that's that's really odd about it. 0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:35.200 They built it where you can't have like a football 0:48:35.200 --> 0:48:37.160 game in there because it's too small inside. 0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:39.719 No I'm not talking about football. No, I know it's 0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:41.759 set up for a concerts, yes, stuff like that. 0:48:41.880 --> 0:48:44.200 Yeah, and here's the thing. There's also speakers in there 0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:47.319 that beam. They have like beam forming speakers, so they 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:51.440 literally beam sound. They can beam sounds to your specific seat. 0:48:51.520 --> 0:48:51.759 It is. 0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:54.239 It's quite incredible the technology they built in. Now here's 0:48:54.239 --> 0:48:56.279 the thing. I already know who the people are going 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:57.880 to be that that are going to open this up 0:48:57.920 --> 0:49:01.360 because they've said it. They just announced it. So here's 0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:05.400 the opening. And Adam, does your mic work yet? Or no? 0:49:05.400 --> 0:49:08.319 Now okay, Adam producer Adam here, his mike doesn't work. 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:13.080 He knows how to say this? Octun you too will 0:49:13.080 --> 0:49:18.320 open this in September, you v Octune Baby Live at Sphere. 0:49:19.120 --> 0:49:21.279 Sphere is a really tough word to say. I don't 0:49:21.360 --> 0:49:24.839 like it. I don't like Sphere. It's too like, it's 0:49:24.880 --> 0:49:30.880 too spheary. The first Sphere experience will be Postcard from Earth, 0:49:31.400 --> 0:49:38.759 directed by Darren Arons Aaron Osky. This, let me just 0:49:38.800 --> 0:49:42.080 stumble through this part of the show. In October, that's 0:49:42.160 --> 0:49:45.600 when that's gonna happen. Then in November, during the Formula 0:49:45.640 --> 0:49:48.640 one Las Vegas Grand Prix. No, I'm just kidding, I 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:54.720 know that one Grand Prix, Sphere will have a prime 0:49:54.760 --> 0:49:58.000 position along the circuit to showcase the Exosphere to a 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:02.560 global audience in person and on TV. They'll have planned 0:50:02.640 --> 0:50:08.040 takeovers of the Exosphere for race related content, activations, and advertising. 0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:11.520 It's also gonna display a wide range of artistic and 0:50:11.560 --> 0:50:17.680 branded content daily from rituals such as Sunrise and Sunset whatever. Okay, 0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:19.440 this is all their stuff anyway, So we know, so 0:50:19.480 --> 0:50:22.799 you two, Then we've got Postcard from Earth, and then 0:50:22.800 --> 0:50:25.520 we've got the Formula one Grand Prix, And so the 0:50:25.560 --> 0:50:27.560 Grand Prix is not gonna go inside, but it's gonna 0:50:27.560 --> 0:50:32.239 be around it. So I think Taylor Swift eventually would 0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:35.839 probably like to sell out that space. This is also owned, 0:50:35.840 --> 0:50:38.600 by the way, by MSG Madison Square Garden. You know, 0:50:38.680 --> 0:50:40.520 I don't know if they go by that anymore, but 0:50:40.560 --> 0:50:44.440 they owned the Forum in Los Angeles. Well actually do 0:50:44.520 --> 0:50:50.239 they still? They might not MSG the Forum. It's the 0:50:50.360 --> 0:50:54.280 key oh Clippers, Yeah, they purchased it. Okay, so the Clippers. Okay, anyway, 0:50:54.760 --> 0:50:56.840 disregard that part. I think MSG owned it for a 0:50:56.840 --> 0:50:59.359 little bit. But they own you know, Madison Square Garden 0:50:59.360 --> 0:51:01.880 in New York City. And of course now this sphere. 0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:04.440 So and they also have in Los Angeles in Burbank 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:07.080 by the airport, they've got a mini sphere where they're 0:51:07.120 --> 0:51:10.480 taking like creative types in Hollywood to do some of 0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:13.440 the programming, to like experience some of it on a 0:51:13.440 --> 0:51:16.200 small scale, so like people can figure out, you know, 0:51:16.200 --> 0:51:19.160 what they can do with this stuff. All right, good question, Mark, 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:21.080 But we know the answer to that one, okay. So 0:51:21.160 --> 0:51:23.000 I said before the break that I'm going to tell 0:51:23.040 --> 0:51:24.640 you what to do if you lose an air tag. 0:51:24.680 --> 0:51:26.640 So I had someone from my work, a colleague, come 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:29.120 up to me and he said, Rich, we found a 0:51:29.160 --> 0:51:31.080 cat and it had an air tag on it. What 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:33.160 do I do. We scanned it and it doesn't have 0:51:33.160 --> 0:51:35.480 any information. It has a serial number and the phone 0:51:35.560 --> 0:51:38.799 numbers blocked out, and I said, yes, the person that 0:51:38.920 --> 0:51:42.680 lost this cat needs to mark this air tag is lost. 0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:45.640 So if you lose an air tag, the first thing 0:51:45.680 --> 0:51:48.279 you need to do is go into your app on 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:52.120 your iPhone called find My Okay. You open it up, 0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:55.120 you go to your items, You tap it and it 0:51:55.200 --> 0:51:59.600 says lost mode. You tap lost mode, which I already 0:51:59.600 --> 0:52:01.560 have a name for one of mine. But when you 0:52:01.600 --> 0:52:04.160 tap lost mode, you can put in your phone number 0:52:04.200 --> 0:52:08.360 and a message. Put in that information as soon as possible. 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:11.480 Otherwise someone will find this air tag and they can't 0:52:11.520 --> 0:52:13.640 do anything with it. So they if you have an 0:52:13.680 --> 0:52:16.360 air tag on your pet and someone finds it, unless 0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:18.640 you mark it as lost mode, they will not be 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:21.080 able to do anything with it. If you find an 0:52:21.120 --> 0:52:23.360 air tag, you tap your phone to the top of 0:52:23.400 --> 0:52:25.800 it to bring up the information on that air tag. 0:52:26.200 --> 0:52:30.920 It's got NFC inside. Do that first. You're listening to 0:52:31.080 --> 0:52:41.399 rich on Tech Prime Day coming up next, Welcome back 0:52:41.400 --> 0:52:44.040 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with 0:52:44.080 --> 0:52:47.760 you talking technology and joining me now is Jacob Palmer 0:52:47.840 --> 0:52:50.640 of Best Reviews dot Com. Jacob, thanks so much for 0:52:50.760 --> 0:52:51.080 joining me. 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:52.000 Thanks thanks for having me. 0:52:52.239 --> 0:52:55.600 All Right, So Amazon Prime Day is happening this year 0:52:55.719 --> 0:52:59.839 starting July eleventh at three am Eastern. Prime members will 0:52:59.840 --> 0:53:02.799 have forty eight hours to get some deals. Amazon is 0:53:02.840 --> 0:53:07.520 promising more deals than any past Prime Day. Yeah, do 0:53:07.560 --> 0:53:08.319 we agree with that? 0:53:08.800 --> 0:53:10.880 Yeah? I definitely think that that's going to be the case. 0:53:11.200 --> 0:53:14.160 Are you going to see anything groundbreaking and completely new 0:53:14.200 --> 0:53:16.160 and fresh? I mean, that's going to be remained to 0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:19.000 be seen. But they're getting more brands, they're getting more 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:21.399 people bought in on it. They're just making the event 0:53:21.400 --> 0:53:23.919 bigger every year. So I have no reason to doubt 0:53:23.920 --> 0:53:25.120 Amazon on that one whatsoever. 0:53:25.440 --> 0:53:27.320 Okay, so tell me what you do at Best Reviews. 0:53:27.440 --> 0:53:30.759 At Best Reviews, we do product recommendations for people to 0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:33.920 make sure that they're purchasing process is as simple as possible. 0:53:34.200 --> 0:53:37.319 So we do the testing, We consult with experts. We 0:53:37.360 --> 0:53:40.520 make sure that everybody has all the information they need 0:53:40.560 --> 0:53:42.280 to make sure they're not wasting their money. 0:53:42.440 --> 0:53:44.960 All right, And I should mention that Best Reviews is 0:53:45.040 --> 0:53:48.319 owned by Nextstar, the TV company that I also work for. 0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:52.080 So let's talk about Prime Day twenty twenty three. Yeah, 0:53:52.200 --> 0:53:55.319 every year, Amazon sort of promises bigger and better, but 0:53:55.480 --> 0:53:58.839 the bottom line remains, people shop a lot on this day, 0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:00.960 but it's not their biggest shopping day of the year. 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:02.080 That's correct. 0:54:02.280 --> 0:54:05.600 So basically, when you look at the shopping calendar, the 0:54:05.600 --> 0:54:07.640 biggest days are going to be the ones you'd expect. 0:54:07.680 --> 0:54:10.440 It's gonna be Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Usually Cyber 0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:12.920 Monday is a little bit bigger than Black Friday. But 0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:15.160 then I mean when it comes to Amazon and what 0:54:15.200 --> 0:54:18.279 they're looking at, Prime Day is right after those that 0:54:18.320 --> 0:54:21.680 big Thanksgiving weekend, So it's the biggest shopping event during 0:54:21.680 --> 0:54:24.839 the summer. And what we've been seeing is is that 0:54:24.920 --> 0:54:28.120 Amazon is leading the way on making it a shopping 0:54:28.120 --> 0:54:31.400 event across the board. So other retailers are getting involved. 0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:34.040 They're trying to price match, they're trying to get as 0:54:34.120 --> 0:54:36.759 much of the tailwind as they can out of this 0:54:36.800 --> 0:54:39.879 event that Amazon is basically just created out of thin air, 0:54:40.320 --> 0:54:41.839 you know, a little bit less than ten years ago. 0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:44.920 So it's interesting that you mentioned the other retailers. So 0:54:45.080 --> 0:54:47.600 many of us are Amazon centric. If you have that 0:54:47.680 --> 0:54:50.200 Prime membership, and I'm sure the numbers show this, you 0:54:50.280 --> 0:54:52.840 probably only go to Amazon when you're shopping online. For 0:54:52.880 --> 0:54:56.520 the most part, should we be cross checking prices anywhere 0:54:56.560 --> 0:54:58.319 else or does Amazon do that for us? 0:54:58.560 --> 0:55:00.279 Amazon does it for you? To be straight to be 0:55:00.320 --> 0:55:03.520 straightforward with you, There's people that have their own personal preferences, 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:05.680 you know, maybe they have a rewards card or something. 0:55:06.000 --> 0:55:07.839 But for the most part, at Best of Youse, we're 0:55:07.880 --> 0:55:12.040 looking for the ideal customer experience. And what does that mean. 0:55:12.160 --> 0:55:15.560 It means the lowest price possible. It means the fastest shipping, 0:55:15.800 --> 0:55:18.359 and it means no hidden costs, and so really when 0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:21.520 you boil it down to that, Amazon's gonna win most 0:55:21.560 --> 0:55:24.160 of the time. So even though you're going to see 0:55:24.160 --> 0:55:27.240 different retailers doing price matching, it's going to be pretty 0:55:27.320 --> 0:55:29.520 rare for them to be beating the price. What I 0:55:29.560 --> 0:55:32.680 will say though, is especially over Prime Day, what we're 0:55:32.719 --> 0:55:36.840 looking out for is Walmart will usually pick a few items, 0:55:37.040 --> 0:55:39.360 same with Best Buy, that they will make a huge 0:55:39.400 --> 0:55:41.360 deal out of and say, you're not finding these deals 0:55:41.360 --> 0:55:44.480 anywhere else. But at the end of the day, even 0:55:44.520 --> 0:55:46.760 though they're rolling those out and they are huge deals. 0:55:46.840 --> 0:55:49.080 Amazon is a little bit tricky in terms of just 0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:51.680 price matching and saying, you know, bringing the people back 0:55:51.680 --> 0:55:53.920 to their site. That's kind of their mo as they're 0:55:53.960 --> 0:55:56.200 always finding a way to bring people back to their site. 0:55:56.320 --> 0:55:59.560 It is interesting whenever I look at another price somewhere else, 0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:03.480 I'm always googling to say what the return policy is. 0:56:03.520 --> 0:56:05.640 And even if I shop in a store, like if 0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:07.640 I'm at the mall and I'm buying something at a 0:56:07.680 --> 0:56:09.960 store I haven't shopped at, or even I have shopped at, 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:12.279 I will always ask at the checkout what is the 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:14.919 return policy, just to keep that fresh in my head, 0:56:14.960 --> 0:56:17.840 whether it's you know, even H and M Clothing Company 0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:20.239 or Best Buy. You know, because sometimes they change it. 0:56:20.280 --> 0:56:22.279 You think thirty days as a standard, it may not 0:56:22.360 --> 0:56:23.840 be maybe fourteen. 0:56:23.719 --> 0:56:26.440 You know, it is a big thing. Amazon made news 0:56:26.520 --> 0:56:31.279 for changing their return policy recently, but even with that 0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:33.320 in mind, they still have one of the better return 0:56:33.400 --> 0:56:36.640 policies that you'll find out there the in store places. 0:56:37.080 --> 0:56:40.879 Because of how hard it's been to get customers into 0:56:40.960 --> 0:56:44.080 retail space, they have been a little bit better, but 0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:47.200 you know, Amazon used to be the absolute world leader 0:56:47.320 --> 0:56:50.200 in terms of no questions asked, you can return. They've 0:56:50.239 --> 0:56:52.919 tightened it up to an extent, but in terms of 0:56:52.960 --> 0:56:57.440 that online only storefront, they're still the best, but you 0:56:57.520 --> 0:57:00.279 can find some pretty solid return policies in store, or 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:03.120 just because of how badly the best buys the targets, 0:57:03.160 --> 0:57:05.240 the walmarts want you to come through their doors. 0:57:05.680 --> 0:57:08.320 Let's talk about some of the deals that Amazon doesn't 0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:10.840 really tell you every deal in advance, which makes it tough. 0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:14.920 But they're promoting seventy five up to seventy five percent 0:57:15.040 --> 0:57:19.240 off of select Amazon devices, which of course includes TVs, 0:57:19.760 --> 0:57:24.760 Fire TV sticks, the Echo shows, the Ring cameras, and 0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:29.560 TCL smart TVs, also kindlescribe, and it's interesting they're mentioning 0:57:29.600 --> 0:57:32.600 that their brand new Firemax eleven tablet will be discounted, 0:57:32.640 --> 0:57:34.560 which is pretty rare because that's a brand new product. 0:57:34.840 --> 0:57:36.600 And then of course they go into all of the 0:57:36.640 --> 0:57:45.720 different apparel, the Amazon exclusive clothing, Sony headphones, eye Robot, Bissel, toys, dolls, 0:57:45.800 --> 0:57:49.080 so basically everything. And I always say with people on 0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:52.440 Amazon Prime Day, if what you're looking for is on sale, 0:57:52.960 --> 0:57:53.640 it's a good day. 0:57:54.280 --> 0:57:56.880 Yeah, And that's basically how it goes. And you know, 0:57:56.920 --> 0:57:59.400 I think when you look at that Amazon list of products, 0:57:59.560 --> 0:58:02.400 there's ones that I would love to advise people to get. 0:58:02.960 --> 0:58:05.760 You know, the ring doorbells are fantastic. They test among 0:58:05.840 --> 0:58:09.280 the absolute best. You know, I robot is always solid. 0:58:09.320 --> 0:58:12.840 They aren't exactly an Amazon brand quite yet. They probably 0:58:12.920 --> 0:58:15.520 will be very soon, but not quite yet. Those are 0:58:15.560 --> 0:58:17.200 some of the best out of the ones you've listed 0:58:17.640 --> 0:58:20.080 in terms of areas where I would advise people to 0:58:20.160 --> 0:58:24.200 maybe shop around and reconsider. The Amazon fire TVs are 0:58:24.600 --> 0:58:27.000 you know, they're really solid. You get a huge bang 0:58:27.040 --> 0:58:29.440 for the buck. They're not going to last as long 0:58:29.520 --> 0:58:32.520 as a Samsung would or you know, a Sony something 0:58:32.640 --> 0:58:35.000 like that. So in our testing lab we did have 0:58:35.080 --> 0:58:37.080 a lot of complaints around that. So you need to 0:58:37.160 --> 0:58:38.840 kind of know which ones are worth looking at and 0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:41.040 which ones aren't. And I would say there's a lot 0:58:41.040 --> 0:58:43.840 of Amazon products that are at some of our absolute favors. 0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:46.680 The kin describe that you mentioned is another one that 0:58:47.000 --> 0:58:49.160 we had a college student test and they were just 0:58:49.880 --> 0:58:52.400 enamored with it. They thought it was fantastic. So there's 0:58:52.440 --> 0:58:53.880 a lot of really great ones, and you want to 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:55.919 make sure that you're looking out for, you know, those 0:58:56.000 --> 0:58:57.960 really solid top of the line products, which they have 0:58:58.200 --> 0:58:59.880 a lot of. But that's one of the things about 0:59:00.480 --> 0:59:02.680 when you talk about it getting bigger, you talk about 0:59:02.720 --> 0:59:07.000 them selling absolutely everything that's true to the extent that 0:59:07.080 --> 0:59:08.880 you want to be able to cut through the noise 0:59:08.960 --> 0:59:11.560 and get the best products out of that huge mass, 0:59:11.880 --> 0:59:13.960 because it can be kind of tricky with how they're 0:59:14.000 --> 0:59:17.320 coming and going, how it's basically everything. How do you 0:59:17.480 --> 0:59:19.880 know is it a good day for me? Even though 0:59:19.880 --> 0:59:21.840 I've been wanting this thing? And that's where you know, 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:24.320 I think Best Reviews provides a lot of value for 0:59:24.400 --> 0:59:27.480 people because we cut through that noise and can provide 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:29.680 you with that perspective that we get from testing these 0:59:29.720 --> 0:59:30.400 things in our lab. 0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:32.880 Give me a little perspective on how you test things. 0:59:33.240 --> 0:59:35.640 Yeah, we love to go side by side. So you 0:59:35.680 --> 0:59:37.760 know a recent one that we really did a deep 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:40.919 dive onto the robot vacuums and we got models from 0:59:41.000 --> 0:59:45.120 I Robot, Ufie, Shark, Robo Rock, you know, kind of 0:59:45.160 --> 0:59:48.000 across the board, and then we will put them into 0:59:48.080 --> 0:59:50.720 real life scenarios. But we try to do that with 0:59:50.840 --> 0:59:53.840 a scientific spin on it. 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But then when you're looking 1:00:43.800 --> 1:00:46.600 through and you're seeing what we're recommending, especially with the 1:00:46.640 --> 1:00:49.360 early deals, those are good deals, but a lot of 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:51.480 the times they kind of ratchet it up during the 1:00:51.480 --> 1:00:54.360 event and they'll be a little bit even more discounted. 1:00:54.560 --> 1:00:56.200 And so that's why it's important that you put it 1:00:56.240 --> 1:00:57.920 in your cart, because you put it in your cart, 1:00:58.080 --> 1:01:00.000 and then on the day of the event, you can 1:01:00.120 --> 1:01:02.200 check back in your cart and see exactly how much 1:01:02.200 --> 1:01:03.880 it's off. You know, I've said it to you Rich 1:01:03.880 --> 1:01:06.200 a few times, but Best review is what we're looking for. 1:01:06.280 --> 1:01:09.480 Twenty to twenty five percent offer more is what we 1:01:09.560 --> 1:01:12.320 determined to be a good deal, especially as it's more expensive. 1:01:12.680 --> 1:01:14.360 You know, a cheaper item, you want to see that 1:01:14.360 --> 1:01:16.640 forty fifty percent off. But when you're looking for electronics 1:01:16.920 --> 1:01:19.240 twenty five, you know, thirty percent off or more. That's 1:01:19.280 --> 1:01:20.960 usually what you want to jump at. And like I 1:01:21.000 --> 1:01:24.080 said earlier, prices are going up and down, availability is 1:01:24.120 --> 1:01:26.320 going in and out. 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Rich tomorrow here rich on Tech talking 1:02:02.200 --> 1:02:05.320 technology with you at Triple eight Rich one O one 1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:08.320 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 1:02:08.680 --> 1:02:13.480 zero one. Paul is in Columbus, Ohio. Paul, you're on 1:02:13.560 --> 1:02:17.200 with Rich. Welcome to the show. I'm doing fantastic. You know, 1:02:17.240 --> 1:02:19.640 I thought I might retire in Columbus at some point 1:02:19.680 --> 1:02:23.040 in my uh when I was younger. I thought that 1:02:23.200 --> 1:02:25.920 I would make it to Columbus in my TV career 1:02:25.920 --> 1:02:27.320 and that's where I was going to work forever. 1:02:27.480 --> 1:02:29.960 Oh okay, well that's a good city for that. 1:02:30.200 --> 1:02:30.439 Yeah. 1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:32.600 It's got some family there. It's a great little place. 1:02:33.120 --> 1:02:34.000 So what's up today? 1:02:34.840 --> 1:02:40.520 Okay, I've got actually two of the older buyer TV 1:02:40.720 --> 1:02:44.800 two's got one first generation in a second generation I 1:02:44.840 --> 1:02:47.120 lived after a few years, they've come out with the third. 1:02:48.040 --> 1:02:51.440 Well of them. I'm visually impaired, which makes at was 1:02:51.480 --> 1:02:54.400 difficult to do stuff sometimes. So most of the stuff 1:02:54.400 --> 1:02:55.520 you can do in voice. 1:02:55.280 --> 1:02:58.480 Control and are fantastic for that. 1:02:59.280 --> 1:03:02.040 Yeah, okay, so my question is if I get a 1:03:02.080 --> 1:03:06.600 new one, am I gonna have to reload all the passwords, 1:03:06.640 --> 1:03:10.800 sort of apps and all that stuff settings or canny 1:03:10.880 --> 1:03:12.240 that get transferred over. 1:03:13.800 --> 1:03:16.600 That's a great question. I know that the apps will 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:20.280 get transferred over. They don't necessarily download, but they'll be 1:03:20.320 --> 1:03:24.440 there and you just one click. But the log ins themselves. 1:03:24.480 --> 1:03:27.120 As far as I know, and I've logged into a 1:03:27.160 --> 1:03:30.040 bunch of these, I actually have the firetvqube the latest one, 1:03:30.080 --> 1:03:34.280 which is great. By the way, I've not seen a 1:03:34.320 --> 1:03:37.600 scenario where they log into the apps. So the only 1:03:37.800 --> 1:03:40.560 password that I am aware of that the fire TV 1:03:40.720 --> 1:03:43.480 can save to your Amazon account at this point is 1:03:43.520 --> 1:03:48.000 your Wi Fi password, so it can do that. But otherwise, 1:03:48.040 --> 1:03:51.280 once you log in, it's gonna it's gonna give you 1:03:51.320 --> 1:03:53.000 the app, it's gonna present the apps that you have 1:03:53.080 --> 1:03:55.360 in your library, but you will have to log into 1:03:55.360 --> 1:03:58.720 those apps again. Does that present kind of a challenge 1:03:58.840 --> 1:03:59.560 or an issue? 1:04:00.280 --> 1:04:03.160 I can get some assistance, but the problem is they're 1:04:03.160 --> 1:04:05.280 all kind of spread out in different places. I've got 1:04:05.320 --> 1:04:08.840 to get a consolidated list you have them all together. 1:04:09.200 --> 1:04:12.240 Yeah, it's definitely it's not ideal, but I will tell 1:04:12.240 --> 1:04:17.000 you this, Paul, the majority of the mainstream apps have 1:04:17.040 --> 1:04:19.840 gotten a lot easier with logins. Now imagine I test 1:04:19.880 --> 1:04:21.920 this stuff for a living, like every day I'm logging 1:04:21.920 --> 1:04:25.760 into something, and the biggest apps they've done a couple 1:04:25.760 --> 1:04:28.600 of things. Number One, they have a QR code on 1:04:28.640 --> 1:04:31.080 the screen. So there's three ways to sort of log in. 1:04:31.120 --> 1:04:33.680 The old way, which is just the most annoying way, 1:04:33.720 --> 1:04:36.160 which is just hey, type in your password and use 1:04:36.200 --> 1:04:39.320 your name, and that's really annoying on a TV screen 1:04:39.440 --> 1:04:42.920 because you're flipping through letter by letter. You can download 1:04:42.960 --> 1:04:47.040 the Amazon Fire TV app to your phone, so at 1:04:47.120 --> 1:04:49.040 least you have the keyboard on your phone to help 1:04:49.080 --> 1:04:51.800 you log in that way. That's the first way, that's 1:04:51.800 --> 1:04:55.120 the most annoying. The second way is the QR code, 1:04:55.160 --> 1:04:58.120 and this I've seen more and more where you will 1:04:58.600 --> 1:05:01.920 scan a QR code on your screen with your phone 1:05:02.680 --> 1:05:06.400 and in some cases it'll link up your account either 1:05:06.480 --> 1:05:08.479 through the app or you can log in on your phone, 1:05:08.480 --> 1:05:11.800 which is easier to manipulate than the on screen typing. 1:05:12.640 --> 1:05:15.439 And then the third way, which is the absolute easiest way, 1:05:15.880 --> 1:05:18.600 and I've only seen this on the Disney app, and 1:05:18.680 --> 1:05:24.000 I believe it was, oh maybe the new the Max app, 1:05:24.440 --> 1:05:26.320 where all you have to do is be on the 1:05:26.320 --> 1:05:29.680 same Wi Fi, have the app installed on your smartphone 1:05:29.720 --> 1:05:32.880 and on your TV, and when you open it. When 1:05:32.920 --> 1:05:34.520 you open the app on your TV, it says, hey, 1:05:34.600 --> 1:05:36.640 open the app on your phone, and as long as 1:05:36.680 --> 1:05:38.800 you're on the same Wi Fi network, it somehow finds 1:05:38.840 --> 1:05:41.320 that you're the same person with the same app and 1:05:41.360 --> 1:05:43.560 it will just log you in on the TV. So 1:05:43.640 --> 1:05:47.040 those are the three methods I've seen for logging in 1:05:47.480 --> 1:05:50.240 on the TV. Oh the other one is the activation code. 1:05:50.520 --> 1:05:52.680 So sometimes it'll just when you open up an app 1:05:53.040 --> 1:05:56.320 like a YouTube TV or something, you'll say, hey, type 1:05:56.320 --> 1:05:58.680 in this code on your phone. Go to YouTubeTV dot com, 1:05:58.720 --> 1:06:01.440 slash activate and type in this six digit code. That'll 1:06:01.560 --> 1:06:05.200 activate it as well. So it's gotten easier, it's gotten 1:06:05.520 --> 1:06:07.680 a little bit more streamlined. But no, as far as 1:06:07.720 --> 1:06:12.040 I know, the Amazon fireTV upgrade process will save your 1:06:12.040 --> 1:06:16.480 Wi Fi password, but no other password there, So that 1:06:16.600 --> 1:06:18.880 is that's gonna be a little bit tricky. You're gonna 1:06:18.920 --> 1:06:20.080 have to get someone to help you to do that. 1:06:20.200 --> 1:06:23.040 But the good news is some of these apps that 1:06:23.080 --> 1:06:25.480 you download on there will be easier to log in 1:06:25.520 --> 1:06:27.400 as long as you have them logged in on your phone. 1:06:27.760 --> 1:06:30.400 So I would say, find the passwords, get them all 1:06:30.440 --> 1:06:32.920 in one place, call the friend to help you out, 1:06:32.960 --> 1:06:35.800 and have your phone handy as well, so that you 1:06:35.840 --> 1:06:38.040 can help log into some of those apps through the phone. 1:06:38.840 --> 1:06:42.600 Great question, Paul, and you're right. The fireTV is fantastic 1:06:42.840 --> 1:06:47.440 for the voice support. So the fireTV Cube, once you 1:06:47.480 --> 1:06:52.000 hook it up to your TV, it's almost entirely voice controlled. 1:06:52.560 --> 1:06:54.880 And right now, wow, I'm looking at Amazon Prime. It's 1:06:54.960 --> 1:06:57.160 usually one hundred and forty bucks. Right now it's on 1:06:57.240 --> 1:07:00.919 sale for one oh nine one ten thirty dollars off 1:07:00.960 --> 1:07:02.960 and this is a pretty new product, so that's that's 1:07:03.000 --> 1:07:06.240 a pretty good price. And once you have this thing, 1:07:06.480 --> 1:07:09.400 I've been trying all the different ways of asking the 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:11.520 voice commands and it works with a lot of the 1:07:11.520 --> 1:07:13.840 popular apps. So you can say, like the other day, 1:07:13.880 --> 1:07:17.000 I literally said to it, resume watching I think we 1:07:17.040 --> 1:07:20.080 were watching Platonic on Apple on Apple TV Plus. I 1:07:20.080 --> 1:07:22.520 said resume watching whatever we were watching, and it just 1:07:22.560 --> 1:07:24.760 came right to the point where we were watching it 1:07:24.840 --> 1:07:28.080 last and resumed And it can do it also with 1:07:28.240 --> 1:07:31.760 channels and music. I mean, it's really really good. So 1:07:31.800 --> 1:07:35.480 if you want that hands free TV experience, the Fire 1:07:35.520 --> 1:07:37.480 TV Cube is a way to go. And I'm not 1:07:37.520 --> 1:07:39.840 talking like I know the Apple TV can do the 1:07:39.880 --> 1:07:43.360 series stuff, but this is real, Like you don't even 1:07:43.400 --> 1:07:45.600 have to turn on your TV. It will whatever you 1:07:45.640 --> 1:07:48.040 say to this thing, it will just take it from there. 1:07:48.200 --> 1:07:52.440 It's pretty pretty good. Thanks for the call, Paul, appreciate it. 1:07:52.600 --> 1:07:54.840 All right. Couple things I wanted to tell you about here. 1:07:55.560 --> 1:07:57.840 Number one, since we're on the topic of movies and 1:07:57.920 --> 1:08:01.560 TV shows, the Super Mario Brothers movie. If you like 1:08:01.680 --> 1:08:04.280 video games at all, I saw it in the theaters. 1:08:04.320 --> 1:08:06.920 It was great. It's a fun little movie. It's nothing special, 1:08:06.960 --> 1:08:10.800 but it was fun. This will be on Peacock starting 1:08:10.880 --> 1:08:14.400 August third, so that is the date a lot of 1:08:14.440 --> 1:08:17.240 people are wondering about and they finally have a date 1:08:17.360 --> 1:08:19.760 for that movie. So Super Mario Brothers Movie will be 1:08:19.760 --> 1:08:25.040 on Peacock on August third. Hopefully you can get I 1:08:25.080 --> 1:08:27.880 don't know if you can still get a free trial. 1:08:28.640 --> 1:08:30.439 A lot of these services you can get a free 1:08:30.439 --> 1:08:33.760 trial of Peacock was giving users a free trial for 1:08:33.840 --> 1:08:38.639 a while. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, Yeah, 1:08:38.680 --> 1:08:41.920 I don't know, but that's something to look out for. Always. 1:08:41.960 --> 1:08:44.559 Google like free trial plus the name of the service 1:08:44.560 --> 1:08:46.439 to see if you can get it. Someone told me 1:08:46.439 --> 1:08:48.080 they were sign up for Apple TV. They want to 1:08:48.080 --> 1:08:49.560 pay for us, so don't pay for it. Look in 1:08:49.600 --> 1:08:52.599 the Target app, look in the best Buy app. Sometimes 1:08:52.600 --> 1:08:56.760 they give three months free on those services. The other 1:08:57.720 --> 1:09:01.240 We've had Jared Numan on the show before. He does 1:09:01.240 --> 1:09:07.240 a newsletter that is really good called Advisorator, and he 1:09:07.400 --> 1:09:10.440 at the end of each at the end of each newsletter, 1:09:10.479 --> 1:09:13.840 he will tell you like which services are streaming for free, 1:09:13.880 --> 1:09:16.160 and what are the apps and everything, So definitely sign 1:09:16.280 --> 1:09:19.840 up for that Advisorator dot com, a d v I, 1:09:20.120 --> 1:09:24.120 s O R A t o R Advisorator dot com. 1:09:24.600 --> 1:09:26.559 And at the end of the newsletter, I'll say, like, 1:09:26.560 --> 1:09:29.960 here's all the free streaming codes right now. And Paramount 1:09:29.960 --> 1:09:32.120 Plus has been free for like since it launched. You 1:09:32.160 --> 1:09:33.880 can literally just put in a different code every time 1:09:33.920 --> 1:09:36.320 it expires and get it for free. So I'll put 1:09:36.320 --> 1:09:38.840 the link on the website. Rich on tech dot tv, 1:09:40.000 --> 1:09:44.960 this was pretty cool. Shazam can identify songs in TikTok 1:09:45.040 --> 1:09:49.719 Instagram and YouTube. So Shazam's been around forever. You're pretty 1:09:49.720 --> 1:09:52.200 familiar with how it works. Every song has a fingerprint. 1:09:52.280 --> 1:09:55.160 It listens to that fingerprint. It identifies a song. Well, 1:09:55.160 --> 1:09:57.960 if you're listening, if you're on TikTok or Instagram or 1:09:58.000 --> 1:09:59.679 YouTube and you hear a song that's just like wow, 1:09:59.680 --> 1:10:02.719 what is that? And somehow the information's not on the screen, 1:10:02.800 --> 1:10:05.200 or maybe you just want to remember this. All you 1:10:05.280 --> 1:10:08.880 have to do is open up Shazam, tap the blue button, 1:10:08.920 --> 1:10:11.920 and switch back to the app that was playing the song, 1:10:12.560 --> 1:10:15.400 and it will figure out the song. This is a 1:10:15.439 --> 1:10:19.240 new feature according to mac Rumors, but there's actually an 1:10:19.240 --> 1:10:22.560 easier way to do this. So if you have an iPhone, 1:10:23.439 --> 1:10:26.080 you can swipe down from the right upper right hand 1:10:26.120 --> 1:10:29.320 corner to bring up what's called the Control Center, and 1:10:29.439 --> 1:10:33.160 you can add a Shazam button to that. So if 1:10:33.400 --> 1:10:37.880 you go into settings, you can add the Shazam button 1:10:37.960 --> 1:10:40.920 to your control center. So just go to Settings, Control 1:10:41.000 --> 1:10:44.840 Center and it says music recognition. It's a little Shazam icon. 1:10:44.880 --> 1:10:46.720 Apple bought Shazam a couple of years ago. If you 1:10:46.760 --> 1:10:49.600 didn't realize that, but if you're in any sort of 1:10:49.680 --> 1:10:52.639 app and you want to hear what's playing, you just 1:10:52.720 --> 1:10:55.160 swipe down from the right hand corner, just tap that 1:10:55.240 --> 1:10:58.280 Shazam button. It will recognize what's playing and it will 1:10:58.280 --> 1:11:01.080 put a little notification on your screen and we'll also 1:11:01.200 --> 1:11:04.479 save that inside the app. Again, all on the website 1:11:04.600 --> 1:11:06.320 Richontech dot TV. 1:11:07.479 --> 1:11:07.679 Wow. 1:11:07.720 --> 1:11:09.880 That closes out this hour. More of your calls coming 1:11:09.920 --> 1:11:12.120 up next. Give me a call Triple eight rich one 1:11:12.120 --> 1:11:15.519 O one eight eight eight seven four to two, four 1:11:15.520 --> 1:11:17.280 to one zero one. Give me a call if you 1:11:17.320 --> 1:11:20.719 have a question about technology. This is rich on Tech. 1:11:25.840 --> 1:11:29.160 Welcome to rich on Tech. This is the show where 1:11:29.200 --> 1:11:31.679 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 1:11:31.680 --> 1:11:34.759 know about. My name is rich DeMuro. You can find 1:11:34.800 --> 1:11:40.640 me on social media at rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, 1:11:40.680 --> 1:11:45.719 and yes, i am now on threads at rich on Tech. 1:11:45.880 --> 1:11:48.680 Phone lines are open at triple eight rich one oh 1:11:48.720 --> 1:11:52.240 one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 1:11:52.240 --> 1:11:55.679 one zero one. Coming up this hour, more of your calls. 1:11:55.840 --> 1:11:58.920 We'll have the feedback segment at the end of the show, 1:11:59.600 --> 1:12:02.560 and doctor Renee Doua is going to join me to 1:12:02.680 --> 1:12:06.880 explain how her new app called Together can take your 1:12:07.000 --> 1:12:10.800 vitals with justice. Selfie and if I didn't try this, 1:12:10.880 --> 1:12:13.400 I wouldn't believe it. But it's the first of its kind. 1:12:14.000 --> 1:12:17.280 You aim your smartphone at your face and it will 1:12:17.320 --> 1:12:22.360 show you your blood oxygen level, your pulse, your what 1:12:22.360 --> 1:12:26.200 else does it do? Your respiration, your blood pressure. It's 1:12:26.240 --> 1:12:30.759 all pretty amazing. So again, that will be doctor Renee Doua. 1:12:31.560 --> 1:12:34.240 She's actually the same person who invented the doctor on 1:12:34.280 --> 1:12:39.360 demand app called Heel, which got quite popular during the pandemic. 1:12:40.040 --> 1:12:42.920 She will join us to talk about that app. Triple 1:12:42.960 --> 1:12:45.760 eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 1:12:45.840 --> 1:12:50.160 to two four to one zero one. Hello at richon 1:12:50.240 --> 1:12:54.960 tech dot TV. Is the email address. Scott is in 1:12:55.000 --> 1:12:56.360 Costa Mesa. Scott, what's up? 1:12:56.560 --> 1:12:57.120 Hey, Rich? 1:12:57.840 --> 1:13:00.960 Well, before he gets my question. While I was on hold, 1:13:01.240 --> 1:13:03.920 I was thinking of other names for the sphere. Oh, 1:13:05.000 --> 1:13:08.560 the globe, the bubble, dot, get around in the round. 1:13:09.000 --> 1:13:11.759 In the round. Interesting. That reminds me of a circus 1:13:11.800 --> 1:13:14.639 act though, you know those things that they circle around 1:13:14.640 --> 1:13:16.360 it in the motorcycles exactly. 1:13:16.400 --> 1:13:18.560 Yes, I was thinking planet, but that's too close to 1:13:18.640 --> 1:13:21.000 Planet Hollywood. And then I like sphere. 1:13:21.360 --> 1:13:24.360 Yeah, it's just tough to say sphere because if you 1:13:24.479 --> 1:13:27.240 if you say it though anyway, but that's what's gonna 1:13:27.240 --> 1:13:28.760 be called. So it's fine, we got it. 1:13:28.800 --> 1:13:30.280 Come to the sphere and have a ball. 1:13:31.479 --> 1:13:32.040 There you go. 1:13:32.439 --> 1:13:36.000 Well, so you're rich on tech, Well I'm Scott under Rock. 1:13:37.280 --> 1:13:40.160 I'm not technical savvy in any way, but and I 1:13:40.200 --> 1:13:42.240 know you're a tech show, but this is a question 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:48.439 about technical but also financial. And I was wondering, like, 1:13:48.640 --> 1:13:52.120 what the stock price has been for Meta with the 1:13:52.160 --> 1:13:53.080 release of Threads. 1:13:53.560 --> 1:13:57.720 Hmmm, well, let's see. Let's look up Meta. 1:13:58.240 --> 1:14:00.439 I would do that myself, but I'm just I've got 1:14:00.600 --> 1:14:02.880 the only technical thing I have is a lane. 1:14:04.120 --> 1:14:07.280 Well, the stock price for Meta right now is two 1:14:07.400 --> 1:14:11.040 hundred and ninety dollars and fifty three cents up a dollar, sorry, 1:14:11.120 --> 1:14:14.439 up five sixty two over the past five days. That's 1:14:14.479 --> 1:14:18.559 two percent. So and if you look at this little 1:14:20.040 --> 1:14:24.760 graph here, well, it looks like I'm not a financial guy, 1:14:24.800 --> 1:14:27.080 but it looks like it's if I had to say something, 1:14:27.120 --> 1:14:30.200 it looks like it's down in after hours trading, but 1:14:30.200 --> 1:14:33.280 apparently it's you know, over the past five days, it's 1:14:33.320 --> 1:14:37.240 been up. So here's the thing. Threads actually does not 1:14:37.400 --> 1:14:40.599 have any advertising on it right now, and so I 1:14:40.640 --> 1:14:43.559 think that people are. You know, they see the big 1:14:43.600 --> 1:14:46.800 picture of Meta doing really well with this because it's 1:14:46.800 --> 1:14:49.479 one more avenue for them to collect information and data 1:14:49.600 --> 1:14:52.880 about a wide range of people. But at the same time, 1:14:52.960 --> 1:14:55.080 they're not actively selling ads, so it's not going to 1:14:55.080 --> 1:14:58.360 contribute to the bottom line right away, but ads will 1:14:58.400 --> 1:15:01.800 definitely be in the future your plans of course. And 1:15:02.000 --> 1:15:03.759 a couple more things. I know we talked about threads 1:15:03.800 --> 1:15:05.920 a lot, but this has really come on the scene 1:15:06.280 --> 1:15:09.920 very very quickly. But if you look at the threads 1:15:10.520 --> 1:15:14.200 iOS listing on the App Store, a lot of people 1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:18.000 are looking at the privacy they call it, like the 1:15:18.040 --> 1:15:24.640 privacy nutrition facts for iOS and the data that Instagram 1:15:24.800 --> 1:15:29.120 the apps developer can collect on you and can link 1:15:29.160 --> 1:15:32.479 to your identity. Is the following on threads health and 1:15:32.520 --> 1:15:38.879 fitness data, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, 1:15:39.240 --> 1:15:47.639 usage data, diagnostics, purchases, location contacts, search history, identifiers, sensitive info, 1:15:48.000 --> 1:15:51.240 and other data. It's the kitchen sink of all the 1:15:51.360 --> 1:15:55.599 data on your phone that Meta wants to suck up 1:15:55.800 --> 1:15:59.559 and put into their advertising system. Now we do know 1:15:59.600 --> 1:16:03.960 that app and Meta are frenemies because Apple came out 1:16:03.960 --> 1:16:07.280 with this thing where if you've ever installed an app, 1:16:07.280 --> 1:16:11.160 and it says ask app not to track, So most 1:16:11.200 --> 1:16:13.680 people say, yeah, I don't want you tracking me. And 1:16:13.720 --> 1:16:16.040 that took like ten billion dollars off the bottom line 1:16:16.080 --> 1:16:19.920 for Meta because they can't have the same access to 1:16:20.040 --> 1:16:24.200 data that they had in the past of people using 1:16:24.240 --> 1:16:27.360 iPhones before they can get everything they wanted. And then 1:16:27.400 --> 1:16:30.120 Apple said no, let's kind of silo these apps a 1:16:30.160 --> 1:16:32.640 little bit more and also let's ask people if they 1:16:32.640 --> 1:16:39.320 want to share. So that was a big one. App 1:16:39.400 --> 1:16:45.240 tracking transparency, that's what they call it ATT App tracking transparency. 1:16:46.040 --> 1:16:49.280 By the way, if you want to enable this on 1:16:49.320 --> 1:16:52.439 your phone, which I'm sure you should or you have, 1:16:53.040 --> 1:16:57.479 you go to settings, scroll down to privacy, so there's 1:16:57.520 --> 1:17:02.040 that actual setting for privacy says I've seen security, and 1:17:02.080 --> 1:17:06.519 then you can tap on tracking and I actually I 1:17:06.560 --> 1:17:10.760 actually have this turned off fully, so apps can't even 1:17:10.800 --> 1:17:13.519 ask me if they want if they want to track me, 1:17:13.800 --> 1:17:16.559 but it says allow apps to request to track, and 1:17:16.600 --> 1:17:19.759 I just say no. Across the board, the less data 1:17:19.800 --> 1:17:25.759 the better. Let's see. Uh, let's go too, Oh my gosh, 1:17:25.760 --> 1:17:29.120 so many questions here. Let's go to Chris in Miami. Chris, 1:17:29.160 --> 1:17:32.400 you're on with Rich Hey, well you, sir, I'm doing fantastic. 1:17:32.439 --> 1:17:32.920 What's up? 1:17:33.720 --> 1:17:36.000 I love listening to that you comment you just made 1:17:36.000 --> 1:17:36.760 a few minutes ago. 1:17:36.800 --> 1:17:37.400 That was apps. 1:17:37.439 --> 1:17:39.200 I was media other night, like, you know, I want 1:17:39.240 --> 1:17:42.000 to download this app. It's asking for the dog one 1:17:42.080 --> 1:17:44.680 kitchen sink. It wants to know when I'm walking out 1:17:44.680 --> 1:17:46.879 the door, when I'm having a salad at Whole Foods. 1:17:47.200 --> 1:17:49.800 And I'm like, I don't I have that same thing 1:17:49.840 --> 1:17:52.240 you do. I don't allow apps to track me. But 1:17:52.600 --> 1:17:54.400 you look at the list of things that they want 1:17:54.439 --> 1:17:56.720 from you from just downloading an app, and I'm like, 1:17:56.760 --> 1:17:59.120 You've got to be kidding me, right, I use people 1:17:59.120 --> 1:18:01.800 for real. And I'm like, I heard you talk about that, 1:18:01.840 --> 1:18:05.280 and I was like, that's exactly how I feel most 1:18:05.280 --> 1:18:07.320 of the time. I don't download a lot of apps 1:18:07.360 --> 1:18:07.840 because of. 1:18:07.840 --> 1:18:11.080 Such Yeah, well I download them all and I just 1:18:11.200 --> 1:18:14.320 you know, you do what you can do. So I 1:18:14.640 --> 1:18:18.680 definitely definitely say no when I can. Sure, how can 1:18:18.720 --> 1:18:19.040 I help? 1:18:19.600 --> 1:18:21.599 Well, I'll make this quick because I think I called. 1:18:22.680 --> 1:18:25.240 I called a couple of weeks ago, but my last 1:18:25.240 --> 1:18:29.280 call to you ring Doorbell. So went out bought this 1:18:29.320 --> 1:18:33.519 second generation ring Doorbell Pro. Now there's another little issue here, 1:18:33.520 --> 1:18:35.320 and I just I just wanted to clear it with you, 1:18:35.439 --> 1:18:38.080 is that the condo that I live in has a 1:18:38.120 --> 1:18:41.880 peep hole. Okay, so if I remove that device two 1:18:41.920 --> 1:18:44.760 screws and a peep hole screw, remove it and then 1:18:45.040 --> 1:18:46.800 install the Ring Doorbell. 1:18:46.960 --> 1:18:48.120 Pro, it's fine. 1:18:48.200 --> 1:18:51.400 It's got really great camera, the most advanced camera. The 1:18:51.439 --> 1:18:53.200 problem is it's not on the front of the door, 1:18:53.200 --> 1:18:56.080 but on the reverse side of the door, where there's 1:18:56.200 --> 1:18:59.840 now three holes. There, there's three areas that once accommodated 1:19:00.080 --> 1:19:04.360 these particular areas like the screws, and that's. 1:19:04.120 --> 1:19:04.760 Not good for me. 1:19:04.880 --> 1:19:08.360 So if I go, if I downgrade to the one 1:19:08.800 --> 1:19:12.599 with the peepole, such as all of it okay, now 1:19:12.800 --> 1:19:15.920 downgrading the quality of the camera, which I don't want 1:19:15.920 --> 1:19:19.080 to do because apparently in this one here that's battery operated, 1:19:19.120 --> 1:19:22.320 it's one of their most advanced camera. I just figured 1:19:22.360 --> 1:19:23.200 I'm going to toss. 1:19:23.080 --> 1:19:26.880 This to Rich So you're are you So you're worried 1:19:26.920 --> 1:19:30.400 about what aspect of the peopole cam the quality of it? 1:19:31.760 --> 1:19:31.880 Well? 1:19:31.960 --> 1:19:34.719 Yeah, I mean I have the Ring Doorbell second generation 1:19:34.840 --> 1:19:37.240 Pro battery operated one which I haven't yet hooked up 1:19:37.240 --> 1:19:40.000 a charge of battery. But that's going to be an 1:19:40.000 --> 1:19:42.439 easy install right, But the problem is is that I 1:19:42.479 --> 1:19:44.960 can't use the peepole suppose I don't want to. But 1:19:45.000 --> 1:19:48.000 then isn't there a kit to close that off from them? 1:19:48.040 --> 1:19:50.160 They say no, So you've got three holes in the 1:19:50.160 --> 1:19:50.960 backside of your door. 1:19:51.240 --> 1:19:54.360 Well yeah, I mean for the now if you're talking, 1:19:54.439 --> 1:19:56.040 so you're trying to figure out if you should just 1:19:56.040 --> 1:19:58.160 go with the peepole cam because it's going to cover 1:19:58.240 --> 1:20:00.559 those holes on the backside and it's meant to do this. 1:20:01.360 --> 1:20:03.800 Yeah, but it's a lower quality camera though, isn't it 1:20:03.880 --> 1:20:05.000 like a book twenty nine? 1:20:05.280 --> 1:20:07.759 But here's the thing. Okay, so this is people Cam 1:20:07.840 --> 1:20:11.519 is HD. The people Cam is h HD. The Video 1:20:11.600 --> 1:20:15.719 Doorbell Pro. Let's see you get enhanced dual band Wi 1:20:15.760 --> 1:20:19.559 Fi color night vision. And do they say, let's see 1:20:19.600 --> 1:20:22.439 if we can find the specs on this camera HD 1:20:22.640 --> 1:20:26.040 video with night vision. So I'm not sure that the 1:20:26.120 --> 1:20:31.040 specs are any better, but I need to check and see. Also, 1:20:31.360 --> 1:20:34.920 the pro is a wired installation. So the Video Doorbell Pro, 1:20:35.240 --> 1:20:38.920 how would you how would you have this on your 1:20:38.960 --> 1:20:39.880 door if it's wired? 1:20:40.720 --> 1:20:41.400 It's not wired. 1:20:41.439 --> 1:20:43.880 The one I got is the one that is just 1:20:43.960 --> 1:20:44.639 has the battery. 1:20:44.960 --> 1:20:48.920 Oh okay, Well here's the thing. Yeah, okay, ones, I 1:20:48.960 --> 1:20:52.000 see it. Okay, So here's the thing. They're all okay. 1:20:52.000 --> 1:20:56.040 The video doorbell Okay, the pro is HD, and so 1:20:56.240 --> 1:20:59.559 is the wired and so is the people The Video 1:20:59.600 --> 1:21:02.719 Doorbell Pro two is a little bit higher. It's fifteen 1:21:02.800 --> 1:21:06.639 thirty six p HD plus. But here's the thing. You're 1:21:06.680 --> 1:21:09.879 talking about a condo. Aren't you in a hallway? 1:21:11.160 --> 1:21:11.400 Yeah? 1:21:11.520 --> 1:21:14.639 I have a hallway bout my dorman, a hallway around meself. 1:21:14.680 --> 1:21:18.200 So I don't think you need higher than HD quality 1:21:18.280 --> 1:21:21.240 because you're not trying to reach out to a street 1:21:21.400 --> 1:21:23.200 or something. People who are going to be in front 1:21:23.200 --> 1:21:26.280 of this are going to be a pretty close proximity. 1:21:26.640 --> 1:21:29.040 So I think an HD camera would be just fine 1:21:29.080 --> 1:21:31.639 in that case. And I think that the people cam 1:21:31.760 --> 1:21:33.840 is meant for this sort of application. You can use 1:21:33.880 --> 1:21:36.040 the other ones, but this one is going to lock 1:21:36.160 --> 1:21:38.000 through the door. So you've got the camera on the 1:21:38.040 --> 1:21:40.000 outside of the door, You've got the backside of the 1:21:40.000 --> 1:21:43.080 battery on the inside of the door. It's a cleaner installation. 1:21:43.400 --> 1:21:45.519 It is what it's meant to be. And I think 1:21:45.560 --> 1:21:49.520 in your case, Chris, because you've got an enclosed hallway 1:21:49.880 --> 1:21:52.840 that I'm guessing the you know, is not one hundred 1:21:52.880 --> 1:21:55.600 feet away or something like that. You're going to have 1:21:55.640 --> 1:21:57.600 a pretty smaller setup that I think is going to 1:21:57.640 --> 1:21:59.120 be just fine. So I would go with the people 1:21:59.280 --> 1:22:02.439 cam install that I have not installed that one, but 1:22:02.880 --> 1:22:05.240 I've seen it, and you know, it's a good solution 1:22:05.400 --> 1:22:07.920 for someone who lives in a place that you know 1:22:07.960 --> 1:22:10.120 you either don't want to change the door or you can't. 1:22:10.600 --> 1:22:13.360 You can still have the security of a Ring cam, 1:22:13.720 --> 1:22:16.320 but if you listen to last week's show, make sure 1:22:16.320 --> 1:22:18.920 it sees what you need it to see, because if 1:22:18.960 --> 1:22:21.920 it's anything like mine, you know it's stopped recording at 1:22:21.920 --> 1:22:24.599 the moment I needed it to record. So that's something 1:22:24.600 --> 1:22:26.880 to keep in mind, is the timeout. And also one 1:22:26.920 --> 1:22:30.080 other pro tip with these Ring video doorbell cams that 1:22:30.160 --> 1:22:32.960 a friend told me when I was complaining about the battery. 1:22:32.960 --> 1:22:35.600 He said, dude, get a second battery. That way you 1:22:35.640 --> 1:22:38.000 can just swap them instead of sitting and waiting for 1:22:38.040 --> 1:22:40.680 it to charge. So if you get a camera from 1:22:40.760 --> 1:22:42.400 Ring and you have a battery on it, just get 1:22:42.439 --> 1:22:45.000 a second battery and that way you can just hot 1:22:45.000 --> 1:22:47.000 swap them instead of waiting for the thing to charge 1:22:47.000 --> 1:22:49.160 because they're not the fastest charging batteries in the world. 1:22:50.400 --> 1:22:53.479 Coming up, we've got doctor Rene Doua to talk about 1:22:53.520 --> 1:22:56.559 her new app called Together, which can take your vital 1:22:56.640 --> 1:22:59.240 signs with just a selfie. Plus, we've got more of 1:22:59.280 --> 1:23:02.280 your calls at eight rich one oh one eight eight 1:23:02.360 --> 1:23:05.360 eight seven four to two four one zero one, and 1:23:05.400 --> 1:23:09.320 the emails and the feedback are piling up as we speak. 1:23:09.880 --> 1:23:12.840 The feedback segment, your favorite segment coming up a little 1:23:12.840 --> 1:23:15.599 bit later in the show. You are listening to Rich 1:23:15.680 --> 1:23:23.679 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:23:23.800 --> 1:23:27.640 here hanging out with you talking tech. The feature I 1:23:27.680 --> 1:23:30.120 was trying out on YouTube if you have YouTube Premium, 1:23:30.439 --> 1:23:34.000 they're testing this new lock screen feature, so it allows 1:23:34.040 --> 1:23:38.759 you to watch a video in full screen without switching 1:23:38.880 --> 1:23:42.000 or turning it off or something. So it's called avoiding 1:23:42.120 --> 1:23:45.040 accidental taps on the lock screen. This is a test 1:23:45.080 --> 1:23:47.880 if you only only if you have YouTube Premium. So 1:23:47.960 --> 1:23:51.240 if you have YouTube Premium, lock screen disables touch input 1:23:51.280 --> 1:23:54.439 while watching a video, so accidental taps do not pause, 1:23:54.479 --> 1:23:56.759 skip or disrupt it. So you know, if you're watching 1:23:56.760 --> 1:23:58.160 a video on your phone, you kind of move it 1:23:58.200 --> 1:24:00.479 around next thing you know it like exits or pauses 1:24:00.560 --> 1:24:02.160 or something like that. So here's how to find this. 1:24:03.520 --> 1:24:06.080 So you go, if you only if you have YouTube Premium, 1:24:06.360 --> 1:24:09.240 open up YouTube and go into your upper right hand 1:24:09.280 --> 1:24:11.960 corner where it says you know your profile picture. You 1:24:12.000 --> 1:24:15.439 tap that. Then it says your premium benefits. And if 1:24:15.439 --> 1:24:18.080 this is available to you, it says try new features. 1:24:18.120 --> 1:24:20.920 You tap there, and right now it says one available. 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:25.120 Avoid accidental taps with lock screen available until July thirtieth. 1:24:25.600 --> 1:24:27.679 How to use while you're watching a video in full 1:24:27.720 --> 1:24:30.679 screen mode, Tap on the gear icon in the top 1:24:30.880 --> 1:24:34.320 left hand corner of the screen. That's not true, it's 1:24:34.320 --> 1:24:38.080 in the upper right hand corner. Weird, and select lock screen. 1:24:38.120 --> 1:24:39.920 That is so weird. How do they get that wrong? 1:24:40.200 --> 1:24:44.040 There's no gear icon on the upper left that's interesting. 1:24:44.400 --> 1:24:47.600 How would they get that wrong? YouTube? Come on, you 1:24:47.640 --> 1:24:50.080 can turn that on. It's available on iOS and Android. 1:24:50.120 --> 1:24:52.360 It's invite only, so if you don't see it, please 1:24:52.360 --> 1:24:54.640 don't write me an angry email. You just don't have 1:24:54.720 --> 1:24:58.680 access to it. James is in Los Angeles. James, you're 1:24:58.720 --> 1:24:59.320 on with Rich? 1:25:00.760 --> 1:25:02.280 Hey, Rich, love the show. How are you? 1:25:02.600 --> 1:25:05.200 I'm doing great? How are you good? 1:25:05.320 --> 1:25:07.120 You know you're doing just as good a job as 1:25:07.160 --> 1:25:09.960 you do on TV. Oh, I learned something new every week. 1:25:10.000 --> 1:25:10.160 Man. 1:25:10.240 --> 1:25:12.400 That that is my goal, is you know? I want 1:25:12.560 --> 1:25:14.160 this is a show that I'm you know, I'm trying 1:25:14.200 --> 1:25:17.519 to make this show accessible to everyone, right Like I 1:25:17.520 --> 1:25:19.599 want people who love tech to listen. I want people 1:25:19.600 --> 1:25:21.840 who don't care about tech to listen and say, wait 1:25:21.840 --> 1:25:23.879 a second, what do you just say? That's kind of useful. 1:25:24.320 --> 1:25:27.640 So obviously I cover a wide range of topics on 1:25:27.680 --> 1:25:29.240 the show. So I'm glad to. 1:25:29.479 --> 1:25:32.439 Joe your podcast Your podcasts are actually worth re listening 1:25:32.439 --> 1:25:35.240 because I'm relearning stuff as well as the site job. 1:25:35.280 --> 1:25:37.760 Man, thanks, James, you need a job promoting me or 1:25:37.800 --> 1:25:41.479 what I mean? It sounds like you're hired. What can 1:25:41.479 --> 1:25:42.040 I help you with? 1:25:43.200 --> 1:25:43.280 So? 1:25:43.320 --> 1:25:46.120 I bought this external hard drive and I don't know 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:48.799 if I can say the brand, but it just totally 1:25:48.920 --> 1:25:51.519 just died on me after three or four months, and 1:25:51.920 --> 1:25:53.800 I don't like. Somebody told me if I tap on 1:25:53.800 --> 1:25:57.600 the hard drive kind of like a starter with a 1:25:57.640 --> 1:26:00.920 car back in the day, like it'll make back to life. 1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:04.080 We called that the old the old. Oh you tried it. 1:26:05.520 --> 1:26:06.040 I tried it. 1:26:06.080 --> 1:26:06.720 What do you call it? 1:26:06.880 --> 1:26:09.320 Well, I mean I called like. I mean, back in 1:26:09.360 --> 1:26:10.920 the day, we would just hit stuff, you know, it 1:26:11.000 --> 1:26:13.160 was like the fix. But you know, like you hit 1:26:13.200 --> 1:26:15.160 a TV, it comes to life. You hit you know, 1:26:15.200 --> 1:26:18.160 you give something a little hit. Nowadays everything's so solid state. 1:26:18.200 --> 1:26:20.800 I don't really think that works anymore. And a hard 1:26:20.880 --> 1:26:23.160 drive specifically, you probably don't want to hit it too much. 1:26:23.600 --> 1:26:25.280 What kind of is it? A solid state or a 1:26:26.000 --> 1:26:27.160 like a spinning like a disc. 1:26:27.280 --> 1:26:30.120 So I thought it was really cool because it's an extern. 1:26:30.200 --> 1:26:33.559 It's like it's actually a backup phone charger and a 1:26:33.600 --> 1:26:36.439 hard drive. Oh that's cool. You know I can store 1:26:36.479 --> 1:26:38.599 stuff and charge my phone at the same time as 1:26:38.640 --> 1:26:41.240 a brand called Eye disc. It's spell A two k's. 1:26:41.040 --> 1:26:41.439 At the end. 1:26:41.560 --> 1:26:43.360 And it just died. 1:26:43.479 --> 1:26:46.920 And I did the tap feature, like I tapped it 1:26:47.040 --> 1:26:49.200 real hard a couple of times. Yeah, not too hard, 1:26:49.200 --> 1:26:52.439 but you know tap and the files actually showed up, 1:26:52.720 --> 1:26:53.519 but they won't load. 1:26:55.200 --> 1:26:57.080 So do you need these files or do you just 1:26:57.120 --> 1:26:58.160 want to rescue this thing? 1:27:00.439 --> 1:27:03.000 I kind of do need the files. They're not super priority, 1:27:03.000 --> 1:27:04.680 but you know, they've got memories and stuff on them 1:27:04.680 --> 1:27:06.800 that I used as a backup and I didn't do 1:27:06.840 --> 1:27:11.280 my triple backup right right properly because I let a 1:27:11.320 --> 1:27:12.160 subscription die. 1:27:12.360 --> 1:27:14.640 Okay, well here's the thing, and I'm running up right 1:27:14.640 --> 1:27:17.519 against a hard break here. Number one. I'm looking at 1:27:17.520 --> 1:27:20.960 this website. The logo sort of a takeoff of sand 1:27:20.960 --> 1:27:23.200 discs that that alerts me, like, h, I don't really 1:27:23.240 --> 1:27:28.000 like this. I would try some recovery software, something like 1:27:28.120 --> 1:27:31.920 Stellar s T E l l A R disc drill 1:27:32.200 --> 1:27:36.360 is another one, recouvera r E c u v A 1:27:36.800 --> 1:27:39.840 that's another one. But I would check those out see 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:42.240 if you know, try something free, don't use something that's 1:27:42.280 --> 1:27:44.960 paid to try to rescue these things. Also try a 1:27:44.960 --> 1:27:47.439 different computer as well, because it may be that you're 1:27:47.439 --> 1:27:50.519 plugging this thing into a device that doesn't recognize it, 1:27:51.040 --> 1:27:53.479 or maybe doesn't have enough power for the USB to 1:27:53.560 --> 1:27:56.840 power up. But I'm looking at their website and it 1:27:57.240 --> 1:27:59.839 seems to promise a lot. I'm not sure the quality. 1:28:00.000 --> 1:28:03.639 I can't vouch for that, so good question, James. Hopefully 1:28:03.640 --> 1:28:07.360 you can salvage this data and back up. Please more 1:28:07.439 --> 1:28:13.479 rich on Tech right after this. Welcome back to rich 1:28:13.560 --> 1:28:16.120 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking 1:28:16.160 --> 1:28:19.839 technology and joining me now is La based physician doctor 1:28:19.960 --> 1:28:23.639 Renee Dua. She has got a new app called Together 1:28:23.920 --> 1:28:25.760 by Renee. Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:28:25.800 --> 1:28:27.800 Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. 1:28:27.960 --> 1:28:29.920 So this is not your first app. You came out 1:28:29.920 --> 1:28:32.639 with an app a couple of years ago called Heel, 1:28:33.080 --> 1:28:36.479 which sort of revolutionized healthcare at home. 1:28:36.800 --> 1:28:39.360 That's right, and so we started Heal actually nine years 1:28:39.400 --> 1:28:42.840 ago and we just sold the company to Humana and 1:28:42.880 --> 1:28:45.720 the idea was exactly as you said, primary care in 1:28:45.760 --> 1:28:47.599 the home, booking from an app. 1:28:48.320 --> 1:28:50.080 So now you've got a new app. This is called 1:28:50.120 --> 1:28:53.280 Together by Renee. And what caught my attention about this 1:28:53.320 --> 1:28:57.519 app is that it measures your vitals by taking a selfie, 1:28:57.560 --> 1:28:59.599 So you can get your blood pressure, your heart rate, 1:29:00.160 --> 1:29:03.960 respiratory rate, and blood oxygen plus more, all by just 1:29:04.040 --> 1:29:07.400 taking a selfie on your phone. So tell me about 1:29:07.400 --> 1:29:08.760 this app. Why did you come up with it? 1:29:09.160 --> 1:29:11.600 Well, so I'm not just a doctor. I'm also a 1:29:11.640 --> 1:29:15.519 caregiver for my parents and I was finding that in 1:29:15.560 --> 1:29:19.439 between their doctor's appointments, I had tons of little tasks 1:29:19.840 --> 1:29:23.679 booking appointments, making sure refills were picked up, making sure 1:29:23.680 --> 1:29:27.400 those medications that they're taking are actually working by looking 1:29:27.479 --> 1:29:31.600 at their vitals, calling and getting the notes from a 1:29:31.640 --> 1:29:34.960 doctor's appointment. And I sat down with my husband, who's 1:29:34.960 --> 1:29:37.479 also my co founder, and I said, you know what 1:29:37.600 --> 1:29:41.840 I need to automate me? How do I make myself 1:29:42.160 --> 1:29:45.280 into a health assistant that everyone can use? And that's 1:29:45.320 --> 1:29:48.080 sort of the genesis of how we came across this idea. 1:29:48.600 --> 1:29:51.320 So let's first start with the scanning the medication bottle. 1:29:51.360 --> 1:29:53.679 It's not your typical scan. It's more of an AI 1:29:53.880 --> 1:29:56.920 scan because it's very easy to scan the bottle and 1:29:56.920 --> 1:29:59.439 then it's reading the information. So how's that working. 1:30:00.080 --> 1:30:03.479 So that's proprietary technology that we built in house because 1:30:03.520 --> 1:30:06.559 again we didn't want you to have to type. We 1:30:07.040 --> 1:30:09.800 allow you to take a scan of your bottle. 1:30:09.920 --> 1:30:12.559 And which, by the way, is round, so it's not 1:30:12.640 --> 1:30:14.760 easy to scan. And so you've figured out a way 1:30:14.800 --> 1:30:16.639 to make it easy to scan because it's round. 1:30:16.760 --> 1:30:19.880 That's exactly correct. And I'm so grateful that you picked 1:30:19.960 --> 1:30:22.360 up on that nuance there, because many people think, oh, 1:30:22.400 --> 1:30:24.960 I'm just snapping a video and I'm sorry, snapping a 1:30:25.000 --> 1:30:27.719 picture and I'm learning so much. No, the round bottle 1:30:27.760 --> 1:30:31.720 has a lot of information that's useful directions, things you 1:30:31.800 --> 1:30:36.280 shouldn't take with your medications, that all important refill number. 1:30:36.439 --> 1:30:38.519 How many times have you called your pharmacy? And the 1:30:38.520 --> 1:30:42.240 first question is enter the number the prescription number of 1:30:42.280 --> 1:30:47.000 your medication. Who knows right here? The Together app combines 1:30:47.040 --> 1:30:50.200 all that information into one place and then takes action. 1:30:50.640 --> 1:30:55.240 The Together app can call the pharmacy, knows the identification 1:30:55.320 --> 1:30:58.560 number of that medification and knows your name and information 1:30:58.640 --> 1:30:59.920 and will ask for the refill. 1:31:00.479 --> 1:31:02.840 Accuracy is really important when it comes to everything that 1:31:02.880 --> 1:31:06.000 you're mentioning. So how accurate are your scans? How accurate 1:31:06.160 --> 1:31:08.200 is the information that the app can get from this. 1:31:08.520 --> 1:31:11.479 We've spent a year and a half just doing research 1:31:11.520 --> 1:31:15.280 and development to improve accuracy and to ensure protection, so 1:31:15.320 --> 1:31:19.200 they're very accurate. And again everything gets better week after 1:31:19.240 --> 1:31:21.720 week as we're releasing new features on the app. So 1:31:22.320 --> 1:31:26.320 each week I see that our accuracy is even better 1:31:26.840 --> 1:31:27.960 than already. Very good. 1:31:28.520 --> 1:31:31.720 Okay, Now, the feature that you can download and try immediately, 1:31:31.880 --> 1:31:35.760 which I did, was the selfie for your vitals. So 1:31:36.520 --> 1:31:39.160 you stand there for about a minute and you just 1:31:39.320 --> 1:31:42.200 basically use your selfie camera and it will start showing 1:31:42.240 --> 1:31:43.800 you some of your vitals and then when you're done, 1:31:43.840 --> 1:31:46.120 it'll show you even more so, which vitals is this 1:31:46.280 --> 1:31:48.360 taking and how is it getting those? 1:31:49.000 --> 1:31:51.160 So the vitals that it's taking are your heart rate, 1:31:51.280 --> 1:31:54.360 your oxygen level in your body, and your blood pressure. 1:31:54.439 --> 1:31:57.599 Those are the most important ones. And specifically, the camera 1:31:57.680 --> 1:31:59.840 is looking in the backs of your eyes at your retina, 1:32:00.040 --> 1:32:03.000 looking at blood pressure in the vessels in the backs 1:32:03.000 --> 1:32:04.599 of your eyes to give you these numbers. 1:32:05.240 --> 1:32:07.040 And what can this information be used for? 1:32:07.600 --> 1:32:10.120 Well, I think a lot about my patients who are 1:32:10.160 --> 1:32:14.000 anxious or depressed, they have elevated blood pressures, elevated heart rates. 1:32:14.160 --> 1:32:15.880 They want to know how they're feeling and if they 1:32:15.920 --> 1:32:18.600 are in fact feeling those symptoms. I also spend a 1:32:18.600 --> 1:32:21.120 lot of time with people who have high blood pressure 1:32:21.439 --> 1:32:25.200 on three or four medications, and even still their blood 1:32:25.200 --> 1:32:28.639 pressure is not controlled. And I personally, when I see patients, 1:32:28.640 --> 1:32:30.960 I tell them, use the app check your blood pressure 1:32:30.960 --> 1:32:33.480 once or twice a week. Let's make sure these medications 1:32:33.479 --> 1:32:34.000 are working. 1:32:34.880 --> 1:32:36.719 Is this the first time we've seen an app take 1:32:36.960 --> 1:32:39.400 vitals like this in such an easy manner? 1:32:39.720 --> 1:32:41.200 This is the first time you've seen it in the 1:32:41.280 --> 1:32:45.160 United States, that's correct, And on the iPhone we've gotten approvals. 1:32:45.200 --> 1:32:47.240 We are the first to release such a feature. 1:32:47.960 --> 1:32:50.240 Can you speak to how AI is being used in 1:32:50.280 --> 1:32:50.759 this app? 1:32:51.120 --> 1:32:55.000 The entire back end of Together is artificial intelligence, right. 1:32:55.400 --> 1:32:58.519 It is the assistant, It is the support that's making 1:32:58.560 --> 1:33:02.800 those appointments, reminding for those refills, reading those labels on 1:33:02.840 --> 1:33:05.719 the medication bottles, looking in the backs of your eyes 1:33:05.720 --> 1:33:08.360 to check your blood pressure. All of that is dependent 1:33:08.400 --> 1:33:09.840 on artificial intelligence. 1:33:10.280 --> 1:33:13.400 Now, the other thing is that your medications that you're 1:33:13.439 --> 1:33:15.880 taking will sort of tell the app what you need 1:33:15.960 --> 1:33:19.439 to do when it comes to preventative steps. Can you 1:33:19.479 --> 1:33:20.720 talk about that a little bit, right? 1:33:21.120 --> 1:33:23.720 And so to me, this is actually a very very 1:33:23.760 --> 1:33:26.639 cool feature in that when we're scanning those pill bottles, 1:33:26.960 --> 1:33:30.240 we're learning, for example, that you take a medication for diabetes. 1:33:30.600 --> 1:33:33.920 People who have diabetes need to have their cholesterol checked, 1:33:34.120 --> 1:33:36.880 need to have their kidney function checked, right, need to 1:33:36.880 --> 1:33:40.720 have their liver enzymes checked. And so sometimes you go 1:33:40.800 --> 1:33:42.960 to the doctor's office and you find out these things 1:33:43.000 --> 1:33:46.559 aren't done or forgotten, or you forgot. Here's a task 1:33:46.640 --> 1:33:48.799 list of things that you can do. And once again 1:33:49.000 --> 1:33:52.080 we can help by calling and scheduling appointments. We're going 1:33:52.080 --> 1:33:53.720 to be able to help by helping you get those 1:33:53.760 --> 1:33:56.840 results and keeping them in one place so that you 1:33:56.880 --> 1:33:59.360 can look at them yourselves or share them with someone 1:33:59.360 --> 1:33:59.720 you love. 1:34:00.760 --> 1:34:04.160 And what's the goal of this entire app. 1:34:04.640 --> 1:34:08.800 You know, I really want to transcend the healthcare experience 1:34:08.880 --> 1:34:13.200 in America right now. I think a patient is dependent 1:34:13.320 --> 1:34:15.439 on what a doctor can do in that fifteen to 1:34:15.439 --> 1:34:19.040 twenty minute office visit, and is dependent on what insurance 1:34:19.080 --> 1:34:22.600 will allow. So many insurance companies have a prior authorization 1:34:22.920 --> 1:34:25.320 or a form that needs to be filled out before 1:34:25.320 --> 1:34:28.080 you can actually get the care they need you need. 1:34:28.720 --> 1:34:31.280 I really want patients to be able to know what 1:34:31.320 --> 1:34:34.120 they need and take care of it themselves, and share 1:34:34.640 --> 1:34:37.639 what they need with their daughter or their partner so 1:34:37.680 --> 1:34:39.920 that their partner can say, listen, I saw that you 1:34:39.960 --> 1:34:42.240 need to get your cholesterol checked. Let's get you to 1:34:42.280 --> 1:34:44.600 the lab and get that done. Let's not wait for 1:34:44.680 --> 1:34:46.280 another appointment with a doctor. 1:34:47.040 --> 1:34:50.920 Two things that I specifically have a problem with is 1:34:51.560 --> 1:34:55.120 the online appointments very hit or miss every single doctor, 1:34:55.560 --> 1:34:58.920 and also filling out paperwork. Why can't I fill out 1:34:58.960 --> 1:35:01.280 that paperwork before I get there? Or why do I 1:35:01.320 --> 1:35:03.000 have to fill it out every time? Why is it 1:35:03.040 --> 1:35:05.200 pen and paper? Is there a reason for that? Is 1:35:05.200 --> 1:35:07.599 there something I don't know that doctors know that? Why 1:35:07.640 --> 1:35:09.799 they make us? Why this is so hard? 1:35:10.000 --> 1:35:13.400 Well, I think you've hit on two fundamental needs that 1:35:13.479 --> 1:35:16.760 patients have wanted for years and we have yet to 1:35:16.840 --> 1:35:21.960 achieve and hopefully together will achieve. Actually, and second, the 1:35:22.120 --> 1:35:25.920 by design disruption of your day. Right, none of these 1:35:25.960 --> 1:35:31.120 systems communicate. You don't know what your optometrist wants in 1:35:31.160 --> 1:35:34.639 the same app as your met form and refill, right. 1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:38.599 I think these systems are by design to keep all 1:35:38.640 --> 1:35:43.280 your information disjointed and disorganized. And once again, that's literally 1:35:43.320 --> 1:35:45.880 why we called it Together Together. We'll call and make 1:35:45.880 --> 1:35:49.200 your appointments. Together, will fill out your forms and send 1:35:49.200 --> 1:35:52.639 them over ahead of those appointments. And we want all 1:35:52.680 --> 1:35:55.400 your information in one place so that you can see it, 1:35:55.760 --> 1:35:58.360 You can control it, you can share it with someone 1:35:58.400 --> 1:36:02.360 you love, and you own it. It's your information, It 1:36:02.400 --> 1:36:04.639 belongs to you, and you can do with it what 1:36:04.680 --> 1:36:05.800 you think is right for you. 1:36:05.880 --> 1:36:07.240 Tell me about the privacy aspect. 1:36:07.360 --> 1:36:11.000 Yeah, Together is a hip a compliant company. Your information 1:36:11.120 --> 1:36:13.519 belongs to you and anyone you want to share it with. 1:36:13.600 --> 1:36:16.920 It's totally private. We do not share your information without 1:36:16.920 --> 1:36:17.720 your permission. 1:36:17.880 --> 1:36:20.960 Okay again. The app is called Together by Renee. It's 1:36:21.000 --> 1:36:25.519 available on iOS, it's available now, it's free. Who do 1:36:25.560 --> 1:36:27.240 you think should download this app? 1:36:27.560 --> 1:36:31.479 Together by Renee is for aging Americans, anybody on more 1:36:31.560 --> 1:36:34.960 than one medication, any caregiver who wants to know what's 1:36:34.960 --> 1:36:36.200 happening with someone they love. 1:36:36.600 --> 1:36:38.639 How can folks download Together by Renee? 1:36:38.800 --> 1:36:41.960 Go to the app store download Together by Renee, or 1:36:42.080 --> 1:36:44.799 go to Together app dot com and you can download 1:36:44.800 --> 1:36:45.120 it there. 1:36:45.320 --> 1:36:47.679 Okay, doctor Renee Dua, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:36:47.680 --> 1:36:48.280 Thank you so much. 1:36:48.360 --> 1:36:50.479 Rich all right, more rich On Tech coming your way. 1:36:50.680 --> 1:36:52.519 If you want to give me a call, it's triple 1:36:52.560 --> 1:36:55.200 eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven 1:36:55.280 --> 1:36:58.679 four to two four one zero one. You are listening 1:36:58.760 --> 1:37:05.360 to rich on Tech Tracy's and Myriatta Tracy. What's going on? 1:37:06.200 --> 1:37:06.400 Hi? 1:37:06.760 --> 1:37:08.839 I get a usual update. 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:13.680 I have an iPhone ten and it updated, gave me 1:37:14.439 --> 1:37:17.000 some kind of an update, and then it took. 1:37:16.840 --> 1:37:18.519 Away its speaking feature to me. 1:37:18.600 --> 1:37:20.560 And I am blind and diabetic. 1:37:21.520 --> 1:37:23.639 Oh and so I have my phone my. 1:37:23.720 --> 1:37:28.720 Asps talking to me, but it took away on the 1:37:28.800 --> 1:37:29.679 last updates. 1:37:30.080 --> 1:37:31.640 And do you know which update. Do you know what 1:37:31.680 --> 1:37:34.720 kind of phone you have? You said, an iPhone, iPhone ten, 1:37:34.880 --> 1:37:38.320 iPhone ten. Okay, as far as I know, the iPhone 1:37:38.400 --> 1:37:42.000 ten still gets the latest updates. This is the last 1:37:42.080 --> 1:37:46.680 year for that, I believe. Let's see. Hold on iOS seventeen. 1:37:47.680 --> 1:37:50.720 They just came out with the supported models for iOS seventeen, 1:37:51.439 --> 1:37:54.040 and let's see if your iPhone ten is going to 1:37:54.040 --> 1:37:57.760 get that. I think it's the end of the line. Yeah, 1:37:57.840 --> 1:38:02.400 the iPhone ten, ten, ten S Max and tens will 1:38:02.439 --> 1:38:06.200 be the first will be the first phones that are compatible, 1:38:06.200 --> 1:38:08.320 which means the iPhone ten has fallen off the list. 1:38:08.360 --> 1:38:11.040 But the good news is Tracy, that your phone still 1:38:11.080 --> 1:38:13.439 has the latest update. And I'm looking at mine, and 1:38:13.600 --> 1:38:18.800 I believe you're referring to the voiceover accessibility feature and 1:38:18.840 --> 1:38:22.639 that is still available. So maybe this got turned off. 1:38:22.680 --> 1:38:25.559 But what I would do is go into settings and 1:38:25.600 --> 1:38:30.280 then accessibility voiceover and turn it back on, and I 1:38:30.400 --> 1:38:32.400 believe that should do what you need. And then once 1:38:32.439 --> 1:38:37.080 you're in there, they've got all kinds of options for speech, 1:38:37.200 --> 1:38:42.400 for Braille, for voiceover recognition, for description, for images, what's 1:38:42.439 --> 1:38:44.880 on the screen for texts. So I'm looking at it 1:38:44.880 --> 1:38:50.080 it's all there, and if you enable that one more time, 1:38:50.280 --> 1:38:53.639 perhaps that will be reactivated because it could be very 1:38:53.800 --> 1:38:56.960 useful in your situation for looking at those apps and 1:38:57.000 --> 1:38:59.519 seeing what they can do. But that's where you find it, 1:39:00.040 --> 1:39:04.040 and you can actually ask Siri as well, So if 1:39:04.040 --> 1:39:06.240 you want to turn this on or off, you can 1:39:06.360 --> 1:39:09.560 just hold down your side button and say turn on voiceover, 1:39:10.200 --> 1:39:12.920 and that will be an easier way of turning it on. 1:39:13.720 --> 1:39:16.680 Because you did mention you're visually impaired, so that might 1:39:16.720 --> 1:39:18.160 be an easier way to just turn it on to 1:39:18.240 --> 1:39:22.040 ask Siri to activate it. So turn on voiceover and 1:39:22.160 --> 1:39:24.439 you can hold down the side button to activate Siri, 1:39:24.600 --> 1:39:28.719 or you can say the hot word, hey Siri, which 1:39:28.760 --> 1:39:31.040 I don't want to say because it activates your phone 1:39:31.040 --> 1:39:34.479 and I just did it online. So Tracy, hopefully that helps, 1:39:34.520 --> 1:39:37.519 and you may want to think about a potential upgrade 1:39:38.320 --> 1:39:42.519 next year when the software is no longer supported. The 1:39:42.600 --> 1:39:45.559 latest software is no longer supported on your particular device. 1:39:45.640 --> 1:39:48.120 So thanks for the call today, appreciate it all right, 1:39:48.200 --> 1:39:53.560 let's get to the feedback segment. Not to be confused 1:39:53.560 --> 1:40:00.160 with the feedback segment, that's a whole other show. Gale rights. 1:40:01.040 --> 1:40:03.880 Gail writes, good afternoon, Rich, I just heard you talk 1:40:03.920 --> 1:40:07.240 to that woman about the Meta notification. That's how my 1:40:07.360 --> 1:40:10.479 Instagram account was hacked. I got one of those messages 1:40:10.520 --> 1:40:13.280 in April, and, like a can't say that word, I 1:40:13.360 --> 1:40:17.040 provided my password. Then I got more questions from someone 1:40:17.800 --> 1:40:21.040 using the Instagram logo. When I refused to answer, the 1:40:21.080 --> 1:40:23.400 contact told me my account would be restored for three 1:40:23.520 --> 1:40:29.479 hundred dollars. I then deleted any subsequent messages. This morning, 1:40:29.720 --> 1:40:32.839 I got one from Meta about how I was falsely 1:40:32.920 --> 1:40:35.599 using my account. I did what you said and ignored it. 1:40:35.680 --> 1:40:39.960 Thank you for your valuable information, Gail. Yes, I was 1:40:40.000 --> 1:40:43.800 thinking more about the caller and that notification. I think 1:40:43.840 --> 1:40:47.759 in her case it might have been legitimate, but still 1:40:48.040 --> 1:40:51.200 very concerning when you have to deal with this stuff. 1:40:52.600 --> 1:40:55.680 Jill writes in as a casual Twitter user, can you 1:40:55.760 --> 1:40:58.719 explain what your guest meant when he said Twitter is broken? 1:40:59.160 --> 1:41:03.400 I don't see any differfer instant a function. Educate me, Joe, Joe, 1:41:04.040 --> 1:41:07.679 that was that was an opinion that Twitter has broken. 1:41:07.800 --> 1:41:11.120 Many people share the idea that Twitter is a different 1:41:11.160 --> 1:41:14.200 place than it was before Elon Musk took over. But 1:41:14.320 --> 1:41:18.160 you are correct at its bear basic functionality. Not much 1:41:18.200 --> 1:41:21.519 has changed. I use Twitter, I still use it, I 1:41:21.560 --> 1:41:24.400 can still tweet, I can still post stuff. Yes, they 1:41:24.400 --> 1:41:27.479 push you to paying for certain things. Yes, stay for 1:41:27.560 --> 1:41:30.080 a while, made you log in to look at things. Yes, 1:41:30.160 --> 1:41:32.000 they said you can only look at a certain amount 1:41:32.040 --> 1:41:33.759 of tweets a day. I think it was six hundred 1:41:33.840 --> 1:41:37.840 for But I never came up against any of those situations. 1:41:37.920 --> 1:41:41.320 So yeah, it's still working pretty much the same unless 1:41:41.320 --> 1:41:45.880 Elon changed something again. But the reality is there's a 1:41:46.080 --> 1:41:50.080 lot of how do we say, there's a lot of 1:41:50.120 --> 1:41:52.880 people that just don't like Twitter because of Twitter and 1:41:52.960 --> 1:41:55.639 Elon Musk, and so there's a lot of complaining going 1:41:55.680 --> 1:41:59.479 on surrounding that, when in reality, Twitter is still pretty 1:41:59.520 --> 1:42:02.920 much the same functionality that it's been since it started. 1:42:04.160 --> 1:42:04.320 Huh. 1:42:04.720 --> 1:42:07.120 Tom says, hey, Rich, I really am enjoying the show 1:42:07.160 --> 1:42:10.920 on KFI. My concern about joining threads is that it 1:42:10.960 --> 1:42:12.880 sounds like you have to have an Instagram account and 1:42:12.880 --> 1:42:17.000 also security concerns on Instagram. Thanks. I'm not sure what 1:42:17.040 --> 1:42:20.000 the security concerns are on Instagram, but yes, you do 1:42:20.080 --> 1:42:22.680 have to have an Instagram account to join threads, and 1:42:22.760 --> 1:42:25.960 people are really up in arms about this idea that 1:42:26.040 --> 1:42:28.000 if you want to delete your Threads account, you have 1:42:28.040 --> 1:42:30.519 to delete your Instagram account. Now, why would you want 1:42:30.520 --> 1:42:32.880 to delete your Threads account on day number three? Like 1:42:32.920 --> 1:42:34.720 you get in there and it's like getting into a 1:42:34.760 --> 1:42:37.200 club and you're like, oh, this place is terrible, and 1:42:37.240 --> 1:42:40.080 you walk right out. I mean, if you don't like Threads, 1:42:40.200 --> 1:42:43.280 just don't use it. Stop using it. You're gonna delete 1:42:43.280 --> 1:42:47.680 your whole like Facebook account, Instagram meta account because you 1:42:47.680 --> 1:42:50.960 don't like Threads. Just delete everything, delete your posts, don't 1:42:51.080 --> 1:42:53.000 use it, delete the app and just come back to 1:42:53.040 --> 1:42:55.439 it in six months and rethink it. But you don't 1:42:55.439 --> 1:42:56.960 need to like get rid of it. So people are 1:42:57.000 --> 1:42:59.559 going nuts over this. Yeah, you got to delete your 1:42:59.600 --> 1:43:02.920 whole Instagram account if you want to delete Threads. Okay, 1:43:03.160 --> 1:43:06.080 they're connected. What do you expect? This is a company, 1:43:06.120 --> 1:43:09.599 it's meta. This is not you know, your grandma giving 1:43:09.640 --> 1:43:12.680 you something nice. This is like, this is may a 1:43:12.720 --> 1:43:16.519 big company that wants to grab your data. They're gonna 1:43:16.520 --> 1:43:18.639 make it tough for you to leave, easy to get in, 1:43:19.000 --> 1:43:23.479 tough to leave. It's like the Hotel California so big. 1:43:23.520 --> 1:43:26.000 A big article on life Hacker, how to delete your 1:43:26.040 --> 1:43:29.439 Threads without losing your Instagram delete all your content, make 1:43:29.439 --> 1:43:33.519 your profile private, deactivate your profile, and if you're ready 1:43:33.560 --> 1:43:36.400 to nuke your Instagram profile, you can delete your account. 1:43:36.439 --> 1:43:38.720 I would not recommend doing that. It's too early to 1:43:38.760 --> 1:43:42.240 say whether we're going to all use threads forever or not, 1:43:42.479 --> 1:43:43.920 so just try it out. If you don't like it, 1:43:43.960 --> 1:43:48.040 delete the app and worry about it later. Mike says, Hey, Rich, 1:43:48.160 --> 1:43:51.559 greetings and congrats on twenty five in the can great show, 1:43:51.720 --> 1:43:54.200 great subject matter. Now, I think you're ready for the 1:43:54.200 --> 1:43:58.160 next step. Bumper music, especially the lead in the beginning 1:43:58.160 --> 1:44:02.840 of the show for Adam's Ears just perked up. I 1:44:02.880 --> 1:44:05.080 think there is a payoff to having the exact same 1:44:05.120 --> 1:44:12.200 tune every time something dynamic. It's an identification thing, identification thing. 1:44:12.280 --> 1:44:13.920 We hear it, we know it's you. We have to 1:44:13.960 --> 1:44:17.599 listen up and you're not too far off. The song 1:44:17.640 --> 1:44:20.160 you last played into break an electronic sound. I think 1:44:20.160 --> 1:44:23.800 it was Tycho, one of my favorite electronic bands. Put 1:44:23.800 --> 1:44:27.400 it at the front, just saying Mike in San Diego, 1:44:27.560 --> 1:44:31.040 thank you. I appreciate that. Oh for perspective, he says, 1:44:31.080 --> 1:44:35.040 I'm sixty seven tech interested, capable and listen watch radio 1:44:35.080 --> 1:44:39.240 TV podcast via streaming. I have Internet radios throughout the house. Mike, 1:44:39.439 --> 1:44:41.639 thank you for that. I appreciate it. It was tough enough 1:44:41.640 --> 1:44:44.120 for us to get the bumper music right, so we're 1:44:44.200 --> 1:44:46.080 getting that and the music, the intro music. I kind 1:44:46.080 --> 1:44:47.519 of like it's different every time. Oh my gosh, I 1:44:47.520 --> 1:44:51.559 gotta get through more. Mark says for the caller with 1:44:51.600 --> 1:44:53.439 the really old iMac, the option to turn it into 1:44:53.439 --> 1:44:55.960 a Chromebook might really be the best option. Because the 1:44:56.000 --> 1:45:00.120 web browsers aren't updated for old mac os versions, a 1:45:00.120 --> 1:45:03.200 lot of websites won't work. Uri says, Hey, Rich, I 1:45:03.240 --> 1:45:05.960 always look forward to your weekly show via Apple podcasts. 1:45:05.960 --> 1:45:09.320 You have an excellent way of simplifying tech into Layman's terminology. 1:45:09.840 --> 1:45:12.559 Yad someone whose contents was stolen from the trunk of 1:45:12.600 --> 1:45:14.840 their car, and I wanted to add a tiny tip. 1:45:15.320 --> 1:45:18.080 When storing anything in your trunk, move it before you 1:45:18.120 --> 1:45:20.280 get into the place you're going to park. Otherwise everyone 1:45:20.320 --> 1:45:22.439 around you will see you putting them into the trunk 1:45:22.479 --> 1:45:24.320 of your car as you walk away. That's so smart 1:45:24.320 --> 1:45:27.439 and I've thought about that, Jerry and Cleveland, says Rich. 1:45:27.479 --> 1:45:29.679 You were talking about the use of what three words 1:45:29.720 --> 1:45:31.920 on your show last week. I use it to locate 1:45:31.960 --> 1:45:35.559 my parents' graves at the massive cemetery they're buried at. 1:45:36.000 --> 1:45:37.920 Even when I know the section, it would take me 1:45:37.960 --> 1:45:40.640 ten or fifteen minutes of walking to find their headstones. 1:45:40.720 --> 1:45:43.720 Now the app takes me right there. Sorry for you're 1:45:43.720 --> 1:45:46.560 a loss, but Gerald, that's a great Jerry, that's a 1:45:46.600 --> 1:45:50.880 great use in Cleveland, Ohio. And finally, Roger Miller says, 1:45:51.280 --> 1:45:53.320 I was listening to what your son said about Final 1:45:53.360 --> 1:45:56.559 Cut Pro and the iPad, and I'm very inspired. I'm 1:45:56.560 --> 1:45:59.240 a forty plus year video editor who's been trying to 1:46:00.160 --> 1:46:05.000 get basic functionality, and your son's accomplishments with Final Cut 1:46:05.040 --> 1:46:09.000 Pro inspired me to give another go and bingo, I'm 1:46:09.040 --> 1:46:13.000 now doing basic functions and I have worked. Now I'm 1:46:13.000 --> 1:46:16.000 working on Final Cut Pro. Thank you to your son. 1:46:16.120 --> 1:46:18.320 I'm finally on my way. Thanks to your show, and 1:46:18.400 --> 1:46:21.320 keep up the good work. Sincerely, Roger, Roger, thanks for listening, 1:46:21.320 --> 1:46:24.639 and thanks to you for listening. My name is rich Demiro. 1:46:25.200 --> 1:46:28.479 Another show in the can. Thanks for being a part 1:46:28.520 --> 1:46:30.920 of it. Rich on Tech, We'll see you next week. 1:46:31.040 --> 1:46:31.439 Take care,